977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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

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

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“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” — Francis Bacon

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

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

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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” — Samuel Butler

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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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