977 private quotes tagged nature

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” — Helen Keller

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” — Blaise Pascal

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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.” — Sophocles

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

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“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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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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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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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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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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

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“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.” — Erich Fromm

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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — Edmund Burke

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey

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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson

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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.” — Albert Einstein

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