Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends
Johann Lavater If you want to make good photographs, a camera has to be second nature to you. [Criticising over-emphasis on technical elements of what you are doing]
Robert FarberMany people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man (More Lay Thoughts of a Dean)
William Ralph IngeThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusNature intended women to be our slaves... THey are our property... They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener.
Napoleon BonaparteArt is only Nature operating with the aid of the instruments she has made.
Paul HenriLife is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen KellerThe art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied
Francois De Salignac FenelonConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyNature knows best, and she says, roar!
Maria EdgeworthAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von ClausewitzLove, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah ArendtI find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity. People want someone to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy them because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle DaxThe diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Johannes KeplerNature is always wise in every part.
Edward Second Baron ThurlowThe chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas HuxleyThis only is hidden from people - the true nature of how they appear to be to other people and not just themselves.
GermanicusNature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
John LockeAll my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie CurieEvery citizen is king under a citizen king [ignoring that because of human nature being what it is, in practice that would never be true]
Charles FavartSuit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
Joan RiversSleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
Ogden NashIt is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne MooreWhat an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis BehanNature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
EpictetusGood painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it.
Miguel De CervantesTrue art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility
James A GarfieldPity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley SheridanHe turns into a madman. His plan hasn't worked, and like a lot of people in that situation he blames everyone but himself. Deep down he knows that he's as much to blame as anyone for what has happened but Sally is the closest person to him and it is in his nature to blame her. He's a very selfish man. [About his character Greg Kelly in Coronation Street]
Stephen BillingtonThe lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDisease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea BallouMiracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineMan does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and moulded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
Wilford CrossTerror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Jean BaudrillardNature abhors a vacuum
Francois RabelaisTo understand the mysteries of life you must look around and within. You will see patterns everywhere; patterns that seem to manifest themselves over and over again. These patterns exist intertwined within nature and man bridging the gap between the enigma of self and universe. You see them in spiraling galaxies and the Mandelbrot fractal of fossilized Ammonoidea; growing from the unknown to atoms to molecules to solar systems to galaxies to the paradoxical expanses of the universe with origins and destinations unknown; just like us in birth and death. The similarities of tree branches, rivers and blood veins. The power of cellular division and nuclear fission, the patterns of finger prints like endoplasmic reticulum, or a black opal's play of fire like the nebula of supernova. Moon shots are like protoplasmic lurches, while simple thoughts and observations of the nature around us take us beyond the unknown. The clues to the great mystery are all around us and deep within us.
Bryant H McGillI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksNature made the fields and man the cities.
Marcus Terentius VarroHe 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.
Samuel JohnsonThose who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio GaudiThe highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John CageNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will DurantNothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
John BergerFrom the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen HabermasAll of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus
Judith AndersonIt is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
Svetlana AlliluyevaI would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E B WhiteIt is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
David HumePoetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas HardyIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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