I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.
Lionel SuggsTag: truth perception reality perspective history human-nature
I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
Lauren DeStefanoTag: human-nature parenting desperation
Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”
He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.
“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next.
Tag: lies hope human-nature human-condition existentialism
Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?
Robert WrightTag: human-nature self subconscious
[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror." "We did not panic. We coped," a British psychiatrist recalled after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. We often assume that such humanity among survivors, what author Rebecca Solnit has called "a paradise built in hell," is an exception after catastrophes, specific to a particular culture or place. In fact, it is the rule.
Jonathan M. KatzTag: humanity human-nature adversity
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
W.B. YeatsTag: human-nature
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
John von NeumannTag: humor human-nature
It wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken--
Tom UptonTag: life human-nature
what we are we potray that in our deeds.....
Sai Kumar NayakTag: human-nature
Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.
J. Leigh BralickTag: bravery human-nature angels nobility
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