Human Nature Quotes

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.