The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleThe Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka FattahAll other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
MontaignePlayers are not going to say sorry because, by their nature, they believe in themselves. I think they are quite arrogant people. They will blame everybody but themselves
David SullivanWe are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob BronowskiPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord ByronIt can't be Nature, for it is not sense
Charles ChurchillNature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
EpictetusAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H G WellsWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac SingerNothing 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 FontenelleWe 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 JamesAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord TennysonNature can satisfy all of our needs but none of our greeds.
Mahatma GandhiFinally he paid the debt of nature (The New Chronicles of England and France)
Robert FabyanNature 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 MontaguHuman nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
MenciusPride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness
James Russell LowellNature never says one thing, Wisdom another
JuvenalIt is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Fred HoyleScenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John KeatsI love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington CarverThere 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 MannThere are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall SmithThe laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom
MontaigneIt is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Gilbert WhiteIt is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia WoolfLove is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega Y GassetTerror 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 BaudrillardHow 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 SmithWe pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Felicia HemansTo 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 McGillFancy is a fairy, that can hear
Ever, the melody of nature's voice,
And see all lovely visions that she will.
Frances Sargent OsgoodFor 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 ThoreauPity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley SheridanBeauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John MiltonDespise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius'I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
although I know we've drifted far
What about yesterday
What about the seas
The heavens are falling down
I can't even breathe
What about the bleeding Earth
Can't we feel its wounds
What about nature's worth?
It's our planet's womb.'
Michael JacksonThe salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
GalbraithIf Everton finish in a Champions League place, they'll play in the Champions League [astonishingly piercing insight there from Bright by name but ... nature?]
Mark BrightEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.'
Maya AngelouProbably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore RooseveltThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireThat's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De Cervantes...I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.
- The Bell Jar
Sylvia PlathNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QuintilianA sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley BlantonGuys go off to excuse themselves, nature calls and that's how it goes
Duncan Fletcher
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