100 Quotes on Human Nature

1. For many people, whether they love someone or hate someone, all they can contribute is their inner madness.

2. The so-called vulgarity is the sum total of all the animality in a person under the command of his ego.

3. Those who once humbly asked us for advice will always find a suitable opportunity and in turn teach us well. Those who thought they were inferior to us at first, they will soon prove to us that they are actually better than us.

4. When people compliment others, they feel somewhat humiliated. So, when we try to get praise from others, we are most vulnerable to being humiliated by others, and it is our attempt to anger them.

5. People's praise is always hesitant, while their ridicule is almost instinctive.

6. When others laugh at us, we laugh at their laughs.

7. We exaggerately praise a thing, often in order to belittle its opposite.

8. We often compliment others with compliments on ordinary accomplishments that do not arouse our envy, because we know well that those compliments are worthless. But we remain silent about the true superiority of others.

9. Compliments are like scratching. As long as the parts are eaten correctly, the compliments will all feel comfortable and intoxicated.

10. People either like to criticize or give advice, both of which give them a sense of superiority. When we criticize others, we act as a judge; when we give advice, we act as a wizard or prophet.

11. People often go to great lengths to depreciate something or ability that they lack, in order to prove that we disdain to have it.

12. Modesty is just a brief opening statement before arrogance emerges.

13. When a person looks down on himself, or when he can't look down on himself completely, he wants to be looked down on by others.

14. A person with a strong vanity, it is difficult not to show snobbish tendencies. Men's vanity is usually more than women's, but in terms of snobbery, women are still better.

15. The more superficial things are, the more they want attention, but attention itself is just as superficial.

16. Just as a frustrated person often talks to others about his previous glorious experiences, a successful person always talks to others about his previous hardships and bitterness.

17. When a person refuses to give us praise in person, we often tell him what others have said about us to inspire him.

18. Stupidity justified by one's own wealth is a shortcut. For that, stupidity desperately needs gold plating.

19. A man in shabby clothes, we cannot yet judge whether he is really poor. But for a man who is extremely materialistic, we are absolutely certain that he is very mediocre in spirit.

20. Pursuing material luxury is the only way for most people to show their extraordinaryness and superiority. The pursuit of luxury stems from a deep sense of inferiority within a person.

21. Although many people wear famous brand names, they themselves are out-and-out stallholders.

22. Sadness is not without sweetness, just as joy is not without bitterness. When a sad wound begins to scab over, people tend to caress the wound unsympathetically, as if it had become a treat.

23. When a good thing becomes too exciting, it has actually become an annoyance.

24. When we envy someone else, we have implicitly acknowledged his superiority over us. Jealousy refuses to praise, but in reality it is an implicit praise.

25. The unreserved denunciation of the inferior, and the unreserved admiration of the excellent are the performance of innocence.

26. A person is most likely to be envied by those qualities in him that are favored by the opposite sex.

27. Beauty rarely cares about ugliness, it only focuses on itself. Ugly, on the other hand, is wary of the beauty around him and does everything in his power to stifle them.

28. People tend to believe bad things happen to others, but optimistically believe that something good will happen to them. People are no less interested in talking about other people's bad things than they are in boasting about their own good things.

29. People like to hear about scandals, and only then will they feel better about themselves.

30. Understanding produces disappointment, and the more you know, the more disappointment you become. Our affection for a person rarely deepens as we get to know him better.

31. When we become dissatisfied with a person, his shortcomings are exposed before us.

32. Our disgust is often more persistent than our liking. Our liking for something is sometimes fatigued, but disgust is not tired. It is a deeper thing.

33. People often add sincerity to their hypocrisy, which makes it difficult for us to tell what is true from what is false. Even a con man, when he directs his own con, is very sincere.

34. Temptation often short-circuits people's reason. Lots of traps, they look like a rare opportunity.

35. False and false things seem to be more comfortable because they correspond more to our inner humanity.

36. No one is willing to admit our own mistakes unless they are so clear and massive that they are driving us to a dead end, which we have so carefully defended and justified in every possible way.

37. There is nothing more difficult than to let go of a mistake that we have fed for years, because we are blood-connected to it; and there is nothing easier than to let go of a truth, because we are only talking about it but our lives are never really involved in it.

38. It is always better to end a mistake on our own initiative than to be passively ended by a mistake.

39. If we cannot be happy in the wisdom we have, then there is nothing that makes us happier than seeing the stupidity of others.

40. The kind of upbringing that people show on the surface is often like the powdery air on a woman.

41. It is sometimes quite pleasant to be needed by others in the field you love and excel at. Therefore, in addition to various needs, people also have a special need—the need to be needed.

42. People seldom really understand anything, or they seldom bother to understand anything, and they arbitrarily judge anything. The judgment itself is a way of self-catharsis.

43. Misunderstanding is also an understanding, understood in a misunderstood way.

44. For most people, language mainly plays the following functions: venting emotions, expressing prejudice, and showing off oneself.

45. Most curiosity is superficial, and it stems mainly from boredom and emptiness. If a person is always curious about the object, he has not yet gotten rid of childish childishness.

46. ​​When our spirits do not want to be disturbed, we soothe our troubled minds by revisiting what we are familiar with. When we get bored with ourselves, we crave something new to energize us.

47. People are often ashamed to open themselves up to others. Because his superiority is ignored by others, on the contrary, his defect will become a target for entertainment, exposed within the range of others.

48. People are interested in prying into the privacy of others, but have no interest in exploring their true identity. Our close attention to all kinds of news and trivia from the outside world is showing our own insignificance.

49. A man can be rebellious, but he must be rebellious in a fun way. The real rebellion is when a person completely follows the guidance from the inside, not the outside deliberately.

50. The extent to which a person is despicable when provoked is the truest reflection of his inner character and cultivation.

51. People's violent criticism of a thing often does not reflect their judgment, but it shows that there is still a lot of anger in them.

52. Nothing comforts us more than the misfortunes of others, and nothing makes us more comfortable than talking about the misfortunes of others.

53. The sad thing about things that people talk about after a meal is that they just act as toothpicks or paper towels for people to pick their teeth when they're full.

54. People are blaming others for nothing more than to elevate themselves. It's like a rocket continuously spewing out flames and then using this recoil to lift off into the air.

55. Some traditions and customs in the world are no better than those deeply rooted in human nature.

56. People often underestimate what is near and overestimate what is far away.

57. Goodness is a kind of purity, it is not afraid of being squeezed, but only afraid of being polluted.

58. Some people do good deeds only occasionally in a certain atmosphere, just as they occasionally squander money.

59. In the direction of interest, even the sideways are already overcrowded.

60. A man of great talent, he can spread his talent as far as possible, but it is very unwise for him to disturb his neighbor with his talent. The purpose of rabbits not eating grass beside the nest is to hide themselves better.

61. Pride comes from a deep insight into one's own inner self and the resulting trust.

62. Life is a kind of unrestrained freedom, but once this unrestrainedness is dominated by self-consciousness, it becomes rampant.

63. Those who pursue material things and desires generally do not recognize great people in the spiritual and spiritual world, and those who pursue spirituality and spirituality do not recognize achievers in the world of material and desires. In short, both of them have their own admirers.

64. People like to climb mountains, some people may be out of love for nature itself, but some people like the feeling of climbing up. Climbing upwards is a basic training in life.

65. Whenever a society becomes impetuous and fanatical, superficial and mediocre things will be widely sought after by people. When the wind blows, the garbage takes the opportunity to fly into the sky.

66. Just as an object is always at rest where its center of gravity is, so the attention of our minds is always on our main desire. That's why billionaires, politicians and entertainment stars can be the focus of the world, because materialism, power and lust are the focus of human nature.

67. In order to take care of their own face, people often reluctantly hold out there until they completely break their face.

68. Love to watch the fun, this is one of the most remarkable common characteristics of mediocre people, just like the badges worn by members of some associations. As long as something happens around, these people can get together without any orders and notices.

69. If Qinggao means being in a cool high place, is there anything wrong with it? People should have a little arrogance, which at least saves us from kitsch.

70. Man likes to let others see what he has, so that his life becomes a window display. People also like to let others know what kind of abilities he has, so that his life becomes a circus performance again.

71. Fashion is essentially a never-ending cosmetic surgery on the vulgar, so that it can be enjoyed with dignity and elegance. It's amazing.

72. If you like something and you can't tell why, you just like it. But if you don't like something, you have many whys.

73. Jealousy is the hatred for the inalienable superiority one possesses. Therefore, the hatred generated by jealousy is often more difficult to eliminate than ordinary hatred, because hatred may be caused by misunderstanding, but there is no misunderstanding in jealousy.

74. When we are looked down upon by someone who is superior to us, we hate that person. Jealousy contains this element, we envy someone because he is so far superior to us, so we worry about being despised by that person. In this sense, jealousy is hatred that is spent in advance, like a vaccine that is vaccinated in advance.

75. People stay close to what they like, and people stay away from what they respect.

76. Begging and begging is another face of evil, and only evil people are willing to sacrifice all their dignity. Obtained by pleading, sooner or later this person will take revenge and violence against that obtained.

77. Analyzing the faults of others does not help to improve one's own situation.

78. For some people, their whole virtue is that they successfully hide all their faults and are impeccable in their manners and dealings with others.

79. When a person has acquired a lot, he will show his window to others. When he shows his window, he has the opportunity to get more.

80. One can be creative only in joy. In trouble and pain, one has only the urge to destroy and destroy.

81. Dominating others is a sin, and being dominated by others is a misfortune. A person who escapes both situations is the luckiest person in the world.

82. People tend to be very incompetent when it comes to self-control, but quite strong when it comes to controlling and dominating others.

83. Most people are modest on the surface, at least verbally. However, they set up their booths without making a sound, and they silently displayed their exhibits one by one.

84. Praising others is a matter of lowering one's own status, because when we elevate others, we also indirectly lower ourselves. Most of the time, we praise others because we want to receive at least the same level of praise from them.

85. A person who is accustomed to deceiving others will begin to deceive himself, and he will deceive himself badly in the end. When deception has become a kind of habit and instinct, it is impossible to distinguish between others and oneself.

86. Because there is no inner light, people emphasize and value the outer light. So, everyone is committed to making themselves bling, and preferably dazzling others.

87. Only a person with his own unique height can face his own shortcomings calmly. He doesn't hide these flaws, he may deliberately expose them because they don't reduce his height, and even those flaws are part of his overall height.

88. If our kindness and kindness cannot influence a person, then things can easily go to the opposite side. That person is likely to become like a beast that smells blood, and we will be attacked and torn apart even more frantically. bite.

89. In the face of tyranny and tyranny, people are silent because of fear. In the face of truth and wisdom, people are silent again because they are ashamed.

90. The real mediocrity is not the kind of mediocrity that achieves nothing in society, but the spiritual and spiritual emptiness, a kind of inner barrenness.

91. It is better to be poor in material than mediocrity in spirit. Material poverty is like an external wound that can be healed. Mental mediocrity is like a chronic disease that accompanies one's life and is extremely difficult to cure.

92. Pride is usually related to a person's inner spiritual quality, while vanity is often accompanied by a person's external material possession. Pride is having an inner height that is invisible to others. And vanity is an attempt to build a height through external accumulation and display, in order for everyone to see it.

93. The foundation of pride is inner self-confidence, while vanity is the product of inner inferiority, and vanity is an effort to make up or cover up inner inferiority. The proud man is usually taciturn, this silence stems from his sense of distance from others, while the vain man is always chattering about showing his self to others.

94. People are alienated because of hostility, and people are also changed over time because they are too close, which breeds hostility.

95. People are very foolish in big things and big directions, but very shrewd in small things and details.

96. Elegance is difficult to spread in this world because it has no foundation in the crowd. The vulgar stuff conducts so well, they're almost superconducting.

97. Regardless of the individual or the era, people have little knowledge of those things that are truly wise and eternal. Every era is most interested in things that just reflect the atmosphere of that era, just as everyone is most interested in things that are closely related to their own vital interests.

98. The enemy is at a distance, and the lover is close, even zero distance. This close distance makes the lover gradually evolve into the enemy. Only the distance between friends is not far or near, just right.

99. People in the world generally regard the accumulation of things as a kind of achievement. They pile up the things from this world into a mountain, and the higher the pile, the more successful they will be. Then they can sit proudly on the top of the mountain, plant the banner of victory and shout to the crowd: Look, here I am!

100. Fashion is always closely related to mediocrity, material desire and vanity. In short, fashion is a kind of vanity manifested by mediocre material desire.