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.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love, it could not do so alone but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it it can do so.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old, to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant, to attain in fact clear and demonstrative know

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature, as his true good being lost everything becomes his good.

Slave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Man is the unnatural animal the rebel child of nature and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more a man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct not to law. Law by definition cannot obey the same rules as nature.

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

Look when you're the president there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean it's just the nature of the job.

Despise not death but welcome it for nature wills it like all else.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another, but women are by nature enemies.

For greed all nature is too little.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.

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.

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow, in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels they rise they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

The human understanding is like a false mirror which receiving rays irregularly distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious, he learned the habit from Nature.

The truth is in nature and I shall prove it.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature "human" might be the greater insult.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own, and from morning to night as from the cradle to the grave it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Those things that nature denied to human sight she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things namely not to follow it but to amend it.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art, for the arts merely imitate natural forms

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.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature and end thy journey in content just as an olive falls off when it is ripe blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew.

By nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.

In other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble, in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

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.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

I believe in God only I spell it Nature.

I love not man the less but Nature more.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce, In man they join to some mysterious use.

Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Two things control men's nature instinct and experience.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Of all the wonders of nature a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable, with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded, / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear / And all his pictures faded.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them he opens the way for his successors.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.

What is human warfare but just this, an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

To be ambitious of true honor of the true glory and perfection of our natures is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

I am at two with nature

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature, and the error is ineradicable.

When nature exceeds culture we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams which nature can't touch with decay.

Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.

In our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less but Nature more.

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.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

I think what made it difficult for people to get and still makes it difficult for people to get is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature but don't lend it to your neighbours.

It is a secret both in nature and state that it is safer to change many things than one.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.

Reason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is full of genius full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

The humblest painter is a true scholar, and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Man being the servant and interpreter of nature can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

It is the nature of every person to error but only the fool perseveres in error.

The more intense the nature of a man the more readily will he find meditation and the more successfully will he practice it.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Habit if wisely and skillfully formed becomes truly a second nature, but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted it will be as it were an ape of nature which imitates nothing to the life but only clumsily and awkwardly

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion and desire.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork yet she'll be constantly running back.

Nature is not human hearted.

Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Nature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for regiment doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear

Nature abhors annihilation.

In the modern world youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad mix with persons of the opposite sex calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other you must get married and not continue living as friends.

Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.

Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince and to understand the nature of the prince one must be of the people.

If you look deep enough you will see music, the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

What nature requires is obtainable and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

For in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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

We see God face to face every hour and know the savor of Nature.

A God without dominion, providence and final causes is nothing else but fate and nature.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time which is my nature. But I was enjoying it and I still do enjoy it.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.

Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.

For I have learned to look on nature not as in the hour of thoughtless youth but hearing oftentimes the still sad music of humanity.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Though nature be ever so generous yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too, and till both concur the work cannot be perfected.

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

Man is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.

Nothing in nature is evil.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.

Words like nature half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

There is not in my opinion anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals which thus rise above reason and yet fall infinitely short of it

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject but to realize sensations.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature whether sacred or profane out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Call it Nature Fate Fortune, all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

In nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place