Can you tell me some 'truths' about humanity?

Question

like our need for 'fairness' (especially when we, personally, feel we are mistreated)

hello.......the 'fairness' aspect is NOT an internal one as it could be biological..there have been experiments done with prime apes that show they have the same predisposition..Since our frontal cortex is MUCH more advanced...I don't think this 'need' comes from reason...as you are implying..

Answer 1

I am assuming you are looking for things which are true of all humanity, and not some subset. Darn few of those, really. It is true that we are among the most slowly developing of species, taken the whole of our lives and that portion which is taken up in becoming adult. We have far less in the way of innate, instinctual behavior than most other species; we learn much, but we are born with so very little. And we can laugh; apparently we are the only species that does, although some others (hyenas and mockingbirds) sound rather like our laughter, but that's not what the sound is to them. We have an apparently built-in sense of their being a future; of looking ahead, which is different from other species. That is, we anticipate.

Answer 2

The weaker the wine,
The easier it is to drink two cups.
The thinner the robe,
The easier it is to wear it double.
Ugliness and beauty are opposites,
But when you're drunk, one is as good as the other.
Ugly wives and quarrelsome concubines,
The older they grow, the more they're alike.
Live unknown if you would realize your end.
Follow the advice of your common sense.
Avoid the Imperial Audience Chamber,
the Eastern Flowery Hall.
The dust of the times and the wind of the Northern Pass.
One hundred years is a long time,
But at last it comes to an end.
Meanwhile it is no greater accomplishment
To be a rich corpse or a poor one.
Jewels of jade and pearl are put in the mouths
Of the illustrious dead
To conserve their bodies.
They do them no good, but after a thousand years,
They feed the robbers of their tombs.
As for literature, it is its own reward.
Fortunately fools pay little attention to it.
A chance for graft
Makes them blush with joy.
Good men are their own worst enemies.
Wine is the best reward of merit.
In all the world, good and evil,
Joy and sorrow, are in fact
Only aspects of the Void.

Answer 3

The modern men being as a rule is proceeding in three relatively autonomous, but immanently coexisting, and each penetrating dialectically through other, and each contesting even cruelly with other, and each more or less dominating on other, differently in various societies, worlds: the first one of the barbarity, the second one the culture, the third one the civilization...
Barbarity is the mode of coexistence of autonomous human societies based on the unlimited will to act so as subject wants to do without any limitations of his activities...
Culture is the mode of coexistence of autonomous human societies based on the most ancient testaments, customs, traditions etc of the highestly sacrified appearence...
Civilisation is the mode of coexistence of autonomous human societies based on the reasoned or legitimated by social contracts, by profits, by expediency and so more constitutions, institutions etc...

Answer 4

Some other 'truths' are that we are never satisfied with what we have. We always belive that there is better. The real battle is the two opposing sides within all people, between the choice of what is right and what is wrong. Of course, one's perception of right is very often someone else's perception of wrong.

Answer 5

Our need for fairness must be searched within, and not imposed on others. To be truly happy, we must be the cause, not the effect.

Answer 6

We only recognize ignorance in others, never in ourselves.

Answer 7

people are not usually satisfied with what they have,always want more and usually dont appreciate what they have.