Nature Quotes

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

There is no better designer then nature

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!