Blaise Pascal Quotes

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

When you start to think about the drives that humans have, I think sometimes we find we are simpler than we thought and more easily manipulated.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

People are incredible creatures of habit.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Human nature fascinates me.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.