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“It's so easy for humans to blame God for their misery, Manfri said. Really, it's mostly of their own making.”

Book:The Measure of Gold

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“Lurking in roughly equal preeminence in humankind’s angst-ridden soul is an antipodal nature, a righteous persona manacled to an agathokakological creature. The species Homo sapiens creates art, literature, music, poetry, architecture, and developed mathematics and philosophy. This creature is also prone to homicide, equipped for rape and sadism, inclined towards religious violence and secular killings, and capable of torture and cannibalism.”

Humanity Violence Human Nature Humanism Humanitarian Human Condition Humankind Warfare Humanity And Society Homo Sapiens

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Television and the internet may offer anyone and everyone their fifteen minutes of fame; the passions and obsessions that drive human nature, however, remain the same same.”

Human Nature 15 Minutes Of Fame

Book:History's Naughty Bits

Source: History's Naughty Bits

“Human beings are social animals. We crave the attention of others, descend into loneliness without it.”

Social Human Nature

Book:An Evil Trade

Source: An Evil Trade

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”

Love Fiction Novel Democracy Adventure Evolution Educational Love Story Greece Athens

Book:Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Source: Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“Who told you you were not like Me? Who told you you were naked? Who told you you were just a girl? Who told you you could not fly?”

Love God Hope Shame Purity Fly Redeemed

Book:The Year I Learned to Fly: A mystical, magical, and wildly imaginative devotional

Source: The Year I Learned to Fly: A mystical, magical, and wildly imaginative devotional

“If people weren't busy making a living and dealing with their problems, they would destroy each other in innovative ways. Misery is keeping the human race alive. An individual will continue to be miserable until she learns to handle lack of misery by knowing her true self.”

Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Violence Society Human Nature Misery Inner Self

Author:Shunya

“Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds and its very self. (Das menschliche Wesen, leichtfertig in seinem Grund, von der Natur des auffliegenden Staubes, verträgt keine Fesselung; fesselt es sich selbst, wird es bald wahnsinnig an den Fesseln zu rütteln anfangen und Mauer, Kette und sich selbst in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerreißen.)”

Time Change Human Nature Being Kafka

Book:Parables and Paradoxes

Source: Parables and Paradoxes

“Tragically ironic, isn't it? How nuclear weapons represent both our species' mastery over the very foundations of nature, as well as our utter inability to master our most primitive instincts.”

Philosophy Human Nature Nuclear Weapons Apocalypse Nuclear War Post Apocalyptic

Book:Mind Painter

Source: Mind Painter

“Yes, some people are definitely much more human than others! And some people are definitely much less human than others!”

Humanity Human Nature Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Humanity Quotes Human Quotes Humanity Quotations Humanity Quote Human Attitude

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the end we are all just clouds wandering around without fighting off the winds.”

Power Human Nature Acceptance Wind Clouds Helpless Moving On Letting Go Change In Time Flowing With The Wind

Book:Red Sugar, No More

Source: Red Sugar, No More

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