Natural Quotes

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.