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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

But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman. — Agatha Christie

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. — Jules Verne

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. — Thomas Browne

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. — Victor Blanchard Scheffer

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man. — Haskell Wexler

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

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything. — Robert Jordan

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. — Pablo Picasso

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

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. — Denis Diderot

But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby. — G.K. Chesterton

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

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. — Pliny The Elder

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity. — John Fowles

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. — Chaim Potok

It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. — Mary Martha Sherwood

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

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. — Seneca The Younger

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. — Hugh Hammond Bennett

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature. — Roger Ebert

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. — Thiruvalluvar

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — John Dryden

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics. — Enid Lyons

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature! — Steven Magee

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. — Confucius

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. — Swami Vivekananda

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature. — Tom Turner

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. — Irvin D. Yalom

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. — Edmund Burke

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. — Bliss Carman

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins

Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents. — Thiruman Archunan

A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand

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

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. — Toussaint Louverture

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man. — Masataka Taketsuru

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing

Religion, Society, and Nature
these are the three struggles of man. — Victor Hugo

Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man — John Morley

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. — Paracelsus

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

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

It's the nature of man to ask questions.
Belgarath — David Eddings

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. — Thomas Aquinas

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. — William James

Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you. — Auliq Ice

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. — Thiruman Archunan

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. — William Winwood Reade

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck. — N.J. Berrill

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them. — Swami Vivekananda

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. — Edwin Louis Cole

Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life. — Karl Marx

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. — Alfred Rosenberg

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. — Plutarch

And yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham. — Jane Austen

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well. — John Tillotson

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. — E.F. Schumacher

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand

Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things. — Manly P. Hall

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature. — George Dana Boardman Pepper

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carre