Nature Quotes
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We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Man is apart of society. Society is a part of nature and the animate nature is the part of the physical universe. Therefore no political practice can guarantee ultimate success unless it is guided by fundamental philosophical principles.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
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Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
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Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'No.'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
