What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.