Humannature Quotes

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise sucha paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Every woman is a rebel.

Men become old, but they never become good.

The final mystery is oneself.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

We disparage reason.But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

Most people are boring and stupid.