But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie CollinsTags: human-nature failure steadfastness constancy faults faultlessness
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
Robert J. McCrackenTags: money human-nature character
On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it has struck me that much of the mental behavior that we sometimes denounce as ethnocentrism and cultural insensitivity actually derives less from our indifference or hostility than from our clumsiness and awkwardness when we leave the comfort of the English language behind... [V]enturing outside the bounds of the English language exercises and stretches our minds in ways that are essential for getting as close as we can to the act of seeing the world from what would otherwise remain unfamiliar and alien perspectives.
Patricia Nelson LimerickTags: human-nature
Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and traders, who spent their working lives in Malaya were ordinary people ordinarily satisfied with their station in life. They did the jobs they were paid to do more or less competently,. They were as happy with their wives as are most married couples. They led humdrum lives and did very much the same things every day. Sometimes by way of a change they got a little shooting; but at a rule, after they had done their day's work, they played tennis if there were people to play with, went to the club at sundown if there was a club in the vicinity, drank in moderation, and played bridge. They had their little tiffs, their little jealousies, their little flirtations, their little celebrations. They were good, decent, normal people.
I respect, and even admire, such people, but they are not the sort of people I can write stories about. I write stories about people who have some singularity of character which suggests to me that they may be capable of behaving in such a way as to give me an idea that I can make use of, or about people who by some accident or another, accident of temperament, accident of environment, have been involved in unusual contingencies. But, I repeat, they are the exception.
Tags: human-nature character characterization
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial."
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths
Tags: human-nature antisocial-tendencies
The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.
Justine LarbalestierTags: parents children human-nature intergenerational-relations
You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light!
Iain BanksTags: capitalism human-nature science-fiction observation
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
Jess C. ScottTags: humor life truth friendship insightful love women beauty humanity society romance relationships human-nature self self-discovery reflection reflective meaning sense insight self-confidence young-adult humankind postmodern social-change life-and-death reflections modern-society modernism modernity self-love superficiality young-adult-literature thieves sensibility human-behavior superficial series thief-of-love thievery elven thief urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels rogue thief-at-night elven-charm urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
AberjhaniTags: love existence compassion history agape philosophy peace war human-nature mankind spirituality community world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings stop-killing-each-other humanity-and-society social-responsibility agape-love man-s-inhumanity-to-man wearedallas wearehumanity wisdom-quotes
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
AberjhaniTags: writing humanity identity human-nature psychology creativity writing-life mirrors national-poetry-month nanowrimo literary-inspiration personal-identity
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