4 Doris Lessing Quotes on Human nature

Doris Lessing quotes on human nature

2. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

43. None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

55. Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

63. Mrs. Lessing's view of recent politics is not everyone's. Her view of the future (inevitably brutish and painful) is that it is the present: that we are all hypnotized, awaiting cataclysms which we are in fact living through now; that we are now - as we run and read - in the process of a rapid evolution; that we are mutating fast but can't see it, the chief characteristic of our race being its inability to see what is under its nose; that historians and scientists, in their timid traditionalism, feed our fantasy view of ourselves - suppressing truths about the human condition, about madness, about sanity, about the essential nature of the mind.