Sleep 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 can't be Nature, for it is not sense
Charles ChurchillI 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 HanksEvery investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes it ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
AthenaeusThe right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas HobbesNature itself may be heartless and free of desires, but amongst the creatures it has thrown up are some which are not heartless, and not free of desires. [Ruling Passions]
Simon BlackburnArt is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Marcel ProustAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleLearn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
LucanusHe 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 BillingtonNature does not make jumps
Carl LinnaeusA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeNo author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies
Edward Bulwer-LyttonIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman MelvilleNature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William CurtisWhen the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.
Simon BlackburnMan is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William WhewellLaw is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega Y GassetTopographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry MillerOne of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale CarnegieAlthough to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. [the famous Euler that set the foundation for mathematics]
Leonhard EulerThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroAs long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord ByronAll nature wears one universal grin.
Henry FieldingIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinAll other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
MontaigneAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von ClausewitzReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceNature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar GracianAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyMan is nature's sole mistake.
W S GilbertBelief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff GordonMan... hath by nature a power
.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
John LockeIt is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne MooreThere are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall SmithProbably 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 RooseveltFrom this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel DefoeThe 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.
GalbraithA finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
Albert EinsteinLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De LamartineBy its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah ArendtIt is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
Svetlana AlliluyevaTwo honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, 'What luck?'
Henry Jackson Van DykeEverybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John MuirNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerMan is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed
Blaise PascalNature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelNature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai StevensonNature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore De BalzacSpace offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny
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