Nature Quotes
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Aussi, les demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la nature, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec une imagination humaine.
Marcel Proust -
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
C. S. Lewis -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman -
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman -
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
Walter Rudolf Hess -
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.
Galileo Galilei -
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
Plato -
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.
Dennis Kucinich -
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Fulton J. Sheen -
We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
Margaret Fuller -
Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
Aristotle -
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle -
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth -
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Harrison Ford -
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo -
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens -
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
Plato -
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.
James Q. Wilson