#na

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature

As in everything, nature is the best instructor. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#teacher #nature

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? ↗

— Voltaire

#emotions #nature

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded. ↗

— Anya Seton

#nature

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#human-nature #monsters #warnings #nature

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. ↗

— Björk

#bjork #loneliness #nature #orgy #nature

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #stupidity #nature

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#man #stupidity #nature

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nature