Scott Derrickson Quotes

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

Flaws are really interesting.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.