977 private quotes tagged nature

“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.” — Jane Austen

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“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.” — Marcel Proust

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“I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.” — Richard Russo

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“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.” — Joseph Addison

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“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” — Henry Beston

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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” — Garrison Keillor

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“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.” — E. M. Forster

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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” — Marie Curie

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“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.” — Galileo Galilei

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“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.” — Arthur Keith

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“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.” — Horace

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“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.” — Helen Garner

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“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.” — Havelock Ellis

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“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.” — Helen Rowland

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“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.” — Jane Austen

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“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore

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“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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