977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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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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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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

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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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