977 private quotes tagged nature

“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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“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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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

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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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“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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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.” — Walt Whitman

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

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

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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato

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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill

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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” — John Mayer

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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.” — William Hazlitt

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” — Deepak Chopra

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