Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself
The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Needs pain and time to crystallized a bravery in the soul of human
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic k...
Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life....
When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.
For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.
Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated f...
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
I am only human, although I regret it.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.