Human Nature

“And, you know, human nature is made for freedom.”

“Without Art Man would scarce be human; with it he rises above the brute and takes a diviner nature.”

“A un ser humano no se le ocurren más de tres cosas serias en su vida.”

“Mankind, in following the present sense of their minds, in striving to remove inconveniencies, or to gain apparent and contiguous advantages, arrive at ends which even their imagination could not anticipate.”

“What I’m interested in in painting is people, of course, principally, how they live, how they behave.”

“We are not different than the rest of the species, we are only one species of nature.”

“If people believe that bad behavior will cost them nothing, they would behave worse.”

“As indigenous peoples, we say, we are not different than the rest of the species, we are only one species of nature.”

“Personality comes to its own when one, through such increasing consciousness, comes to discover the central fact, which commands the wide complexity of life.”

“Мы живем в мире вещественном, мы принадлежим к нему целою половиною нашего существа.”

“People have the natural ability to become better.”

“人喜欢我，是因为我喜欢人。”

“Not, of course, to my beautiful and infallible invention, but to the poor humans who have not yet been successfully immunised against human error.”

“Because, for me, the scariest things in films are people. Not monsters.”

“I know it is very unfashionable these days, but I do believe in humanity.”

“One doesn’t create comedy – it’s already there all around us in our mommas, granmas, granpas, neighbours, chums – One just has to pick it up properly.”

“For all are by nature of very subtle, lively, clear and most capable understanding.”

“There is a complex side to each human being, there is good and bad.”