Blaise Pascal Quotes

I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second World War, he had come back. He had switched to sociology because he wanted to understand how people could do these terrible things to each other. And he did a little bit of economics on the side.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

The true science and study of man is man.

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

Dogs have fleas and we have anthropologists.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.