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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man — George R R Martin

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. — Ernest Jones

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature. — Hans Christian Andersen

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding — Jacob Bronowski

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. — Stewart Udall

If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can — Joni Mitchell

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me. — Ashton Kutcher

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man. — Publilius Syrus

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men ... — Mercy Otis Warren

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. — Zora Neale Hurston

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna — George R R Martin

There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him. — Tam Linsey

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people. — Kate Langley Bosher

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far. — Pope Francis

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. — John Taylor

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. — Hans Morgenthau

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature. — Joseph Hertz

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over. — Erika Johansen

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before. — Kent Haruf

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought. — Napoleon Hill

The imagination is man's power over nature. — Wallace Stevens

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. — Eric Hoffer

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes. — Samuel Von Pufendorf

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. — Pliny The Elder

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too. — Cathy Burnham Martin

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. — Maria Montessori

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. — Alan Bleasdale

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals — Swami Vivekananda

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

There's something animalistic about this man. Something I want to be a part of. Something I want to be included in. He's a force of nature. — Belle Aurora

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23 — Felix Wantang

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. — James D. Carswell

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of the work which makes no difference whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Nature herself makes the wise man rich. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. — George Ross Kirkpatrick

Men argue. Nature acts. — Voltaire

Man is not above nature, but in nature. — Ernst Haeckel