#human

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#human-nature #sins #change

some story must be told because they have the power to inspire.. ↗

— nst

#inspirational

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#psychology #sociology #love

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never changes. He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile. I am speaking of Man in the bulk. ↗

— Rafael Sabatini

#greed #human-nature #change

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #human-nature #change

Humans have nothing to do with angels and fairies, then why still I love you? ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#fairies #human #love #love

The changes that are external and limited to surface are temporary and fade away quickly. We should make the inner changes so that the reflection of them outside would be what we expect. ↗

— Ilia M. R.

#life #change

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? ↗

— Hal Duncan

#hatred #inhumanity #death

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#apes #history #hominids #human #love

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#marriage #marriage