Nature Quotes
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.
I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.
I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.
Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.
Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs.
The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
