Nature Quotes
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.George Crabbe
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
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
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Robert Darwin
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.Akhenaton
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.Plato, The Republic
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
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.Marilyn Monroe
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Carl Jung
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
