977 private quotes tagged nature

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.” — Plato

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“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” — George Eliot

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“The learned is happy, nature to explore;
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.” — Alexander Pope

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — Woody Allen

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” — Plato

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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.” — Franz Kafka

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“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” — John Muir

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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine

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“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.” — Albert Camus

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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” — Jules Verne

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” — Francis Bacon

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“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?” — Herman Melville

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“All nature is but art unknown to thee.” — Alexander Pope

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” — C. S. Lewis

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