977 private quotes tagged nature

“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.” — Auguste Rodin

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“I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.” — Gary Chapman

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“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.” — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.” — Xun Zi

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“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.” — William Hazlitt

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“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.” — Christopher Morley

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“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.” — Henry Rollins

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“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.” — George Santayana

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“You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.” — Jack LaLanne

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“Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.” — Eric Hoffer

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“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.” — Joseph Addison

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“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.” — Marquis de Sade

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“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.” — Joseph Addison

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“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.” — William Hazlitt

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“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.” — Alfred Adler

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“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“Gossip is nature's telephone.” — Sholom Aleichem

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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.” — Edward Hopper

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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.” — Paul Cezanne

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