What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Fear is the mother of morality.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Hell is other people.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

All men are equal before fish.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

The brain is wider than the sky.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Music is like film to me.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.