I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.
Alexis de TocquevilleTags: human-nature
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de BalzacTags: love human-nature
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: human-nature
It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.
Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.
Tags: wisdom inspirational human-nature
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
Philip RothTags: intelligence human-nature
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Henry David ThoreauTags: individuality strength liberty human-nature force uniqueness
You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
Chuck PalahniukTags: human-nature
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck PalahniukTags: human-nature conversation weekend
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
Chuck PalahniukTags: human-nature
The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
Chuck PalahniukTags: human-nature
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