I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.
Because human nature never changes.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
Sometimes trials...Bring out the hard-hearted nature of a good person and make him unforgiving.And, sometimes trials...Help a socially snubbed person to live a humane life and make him appreciable!Its...
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitl...
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Ambiguity begets participation.
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when...
He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which,...
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had laboured so much upon...