Nature Quotes
Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.
I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.
I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.
The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.
Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.