Nature Quotes
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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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'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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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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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.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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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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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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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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Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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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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Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
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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.
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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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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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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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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.
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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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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
