Nature Quotes
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.Marylin Monroe
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
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 dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.Francis Bacon
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
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
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
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 form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcou
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
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
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.Phillip Lubin
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
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.William Shakespeare
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.Alan Bleasdale
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
