Nature Quotes
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Amid this life based on coercion, one and the same thought constantly emerged among different nations, namely, that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
Leo Tolstoy
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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Geoff Dyer
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Samuel Adams
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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Jean Ingelow
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton
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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.
Primo Levi
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Joseph Butler
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
Walt Mossberg
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
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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.
James Q. Wilson
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
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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.
Albert Einstein
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweetLessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;And Death is beautiful as feet of friendComing with welcome at our journey’s end.For me Fate gave, whate’er she else denied,A nature sloping to the southern side;I thank her for it, though when clouds ariseSuch natures double-darken gloomy skies.
James Russell Lowell
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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.
Cote de Pablo
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Benjamin
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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
Plutarch
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.
Albert Pike