977 private quotes tagged nature

“Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.” — Xun Zi

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“Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.” — Tom Hiddleston

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“We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.” — Anthony Hopkins

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“I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.” — Newt Gingrich

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“The nature of rumor is known to all.” — Tertullian

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“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.” — William Howard Taft

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“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.” — Billy Corgan

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“Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.” — Bodhidharma

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“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.” — Syd Barrett

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“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.” — Wallace Stevens

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“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.” — Archibald Alexander

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“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.” — Bodhidharma

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“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.” — Henry Adams

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“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” — Adolf Loos

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“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.” — William Lyon Phelps

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“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.” — Henri Matisse

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“Nature can do more than physicians.” — Oliver Cromwell

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“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.” — David Hume

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“I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.” — Herbert Read

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