977 private quotes tagged nature

“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.” — Alexander Pope

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

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“If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.” — Anatole France

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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” — Francis Bacon

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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.” — Anatole France

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“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” — Tennessee Williams

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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” — Victor Hugo

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

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

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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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“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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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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