Quotation Library
Human Nature
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The proper study of mankind is man.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Homo homini lupus.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Man is the measure of all things.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
No man is an island.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Man is condemned to be free.
Human beings are social animals.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
The nature of man is evil; his goodness is only acquired training.
Nothing human is alien to me.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.
Man is a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.
Character is destiny.
Man is a rational animal.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.