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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
Boris Pasternak

It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elija experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
Thomas Cole

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
Mary Wortley Montagu

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth Tynan

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Henry David Thoreau

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does, it may come out second best. [Profound indeed]
John Hart

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann

Nature does not make jumps
Carl Linnaeus

The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life.
Bhagwan Rajneesh

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
André Gide

Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit.
John Wilmot

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas Rowe

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Benedict Spinoza

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S Lewis

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought
Thomas Carlyle

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles Chesnutt

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De Cervantes

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De Lamartine

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E Stevenson

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature
Richard Dawkins

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D Rockefeller

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
Albert Einstein

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, (Human Nature)
Thomas Hobbes

Nature abhors a vacuum
Francois Rabelais

Cheerfulness is full of significance; it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature
Charles Kingsley

When Cicero consulted the oracle at Delphos, concerning what course of studies he should pursue, the answer was 'Follow Nature.'
John Beaumont

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.
Samuel Johnson

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
William James

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, 'Let there be light,' constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Bruce Barton

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
Adam Smith

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson

Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
Eric Hoffer

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard Fontenelle

Fancy is a fairy, that can hear
Ever, the melody of nature's voice,
And see all lovely visions that she will.
Frances Sargent Osgood

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause
Edward Young

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang Pauli



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