Behavior Quotes

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.[Los que creemos móviles de nuestra conducta no suelen ser sino pretextos.]

We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior.

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

They’re all alike. At first they behave very well, they’re obedient and prompt and they don’t seem capable of killing a fly, but as soon as their beards appear they go to ruin.[Todos son iguales. Al principio se crían muy bien, son obedientes y formales y parecen incapaces de matar una mosca, y apenas les sale la barba se tiran a la perdición.]

The common behaviour of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.[Die gemeinsame menschliche Handlungsweise ist das Bezugssystem, mittels welches wir uns eine fremde Sprache deuten.]