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 PasternakIt 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 ColeNature 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 MontaguIt 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 TynanFor 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 ThoreauArt 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 HartThere 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 MannNature does not make jumps
Carl LinnaeusThe 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 RajneeshNature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar GracianThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireGood 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 FranceThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
André GideFarewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit.
John WilmotBeauty 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 GoetheDeath is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas RoweOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Benedict SpinozaMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S LewisHistory, 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 CarlyleTo the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs 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 ChesnuttThat's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De CervantesLike water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril ConnollyLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De LamartineNature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E StevensonMost 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 DawkinsI 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 RockefellerA finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
Albert EinsteinNature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William CurtisLaughter 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 HobbesNature abhors a vacuum
Francois RabelaisCheerfulness is full of significance; it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature
Charles KingsleyWhen Cicero consulted the oracle at Delphos, concerning what course of studies he should pursue, the answer was 'Follow Nature.'
John BeaumontHe 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 JohnsonIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John MuirWe 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 JamesAs 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 BartonHow 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 SmithNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonNature's loving proxy, the watching mother
Edward Bulwer-LyttonA 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 NietzscheNature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
Eric HofferThose who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio GaudiJoy, 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 MayNothing 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 FontenelleFancy is a fairy, that can hear
Ever, the melody of nature's voice,
And see all lovely visions that she will.
Frances Sargent OsgoodSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineCreation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause
Edward YoungLater, 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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