Quotes about human nature

All life worked in concert, he’d been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.

To be human is to seek beauty.

“I haven’t faith in people any longer, old friend,” Nohadon said. “Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.”

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

“Stories and legends, Teft,” Kaladin said. “We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don’t change. They are corrupt now. They were corrupt then.”

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Harry Dresden: As a whole, people suck, but a person can be extraordinary.

Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?