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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. — Charles Krauthammer

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

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents. — George Whitefield

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature. — Elena Ferrante

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. — Hugh Grant

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides all of her life. — Fran Lebowitz

It's only human nature for dogs to chase motrobikes — Peter Tinniswood

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph. — Abbas Kiarostami

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth. — Rolf Jacobsen

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal. — John Dewey

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

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. — Karen Russell

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde

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

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner

Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing. — Sarah Noffke

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones. — Criss Jami

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). — Richard Louv

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. — Gavin De Beer

We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. — Toba Beta

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement. — E. O. Wilson

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy. — Karolina Kurkova

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. — William Harvey

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ? — T. B. Joshua

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share. — Henry David Thoreau

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity. — Mooji

Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else. — Abhijit Naskar

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature. — Seneca.

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

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The — John Medina

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored. — Gregory Bateson

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. — A.B. Simpson

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. — Charles De Secondat

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

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. — Kenneth G. Wilson

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI

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

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility. — Amitav Ghosh

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

Love is nature's way of ensuring pregnancy — Sujatha

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature. — Joey Lawsin

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity — William Arthur Ward

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For nature then to me was all in all. — William Wordsworth

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead. — David Mamet

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. — Zora Neale Hurston

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become. — Aristotle.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important. — Maya Tiwari

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature ... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves. — Jon Stewart

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

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

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. — Walter Rauschenbusch

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids. — Andrea Navedo

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural. — Isaac Asimov

Time is the supreme Law of nature. — Arthur Eddington

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters. — Gautama Buddha

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves. — Deepak Chopra

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki

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

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden

i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy. — Leslie Weatherhead

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley