977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” — Antonio Gaudi

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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” — Aldous Huxley

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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” — Plato

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“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” — Jules Verne

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” — John Muir

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“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.” — Sophocles

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“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir

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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck

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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” — Voltaire

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“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.” — Thomas Paine

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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