Nature Quotes
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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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Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
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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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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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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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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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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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Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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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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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 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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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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The goal of physiological research is functional 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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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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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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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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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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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.
