Nature Quotes
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.Alan Bleasdale
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.Johann von Goethe
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.Galileo Galilei
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
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.Seneca
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.Albert Camus
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.Sydney Smith
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.Jane Austen, Emma
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.Maitri Upanishads
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - - - And another woman to help him forget them.Helen Rowland
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.Johann von Goethe
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.William Rotsle
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
