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Quotes about Man and Nature

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607 Written Quotes

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature. Votes: 6

Kailash Kher

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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together. Votes: 6

Jack Nicklaus

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Votes: 5

Henry David Thoreau

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The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. Votes: 4

Marshall McLuhan

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Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. Votes: 4

Narendra Modi

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Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. Votes: 4

Camille Paglia

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The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization. Votes: 4

Herbert Marcuse

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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Votes: 4

Cyril Connolly

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The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true. Votes: 4

Janet Morris

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Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. Votes: 4

Raymond Williams

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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. Votes: 4

Henry Miller

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Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together. Votes: 4

Page Smith

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Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act. Votes: 4

Mario Botta

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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end. Votes: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art? Votes: 4

Brassai

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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature. Votes: 3

Anatole France

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Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. Votes: 3

Hubert Burda

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Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God. Votes: 3

Moses Mendelssohn

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The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. Votes: 3

Douglas Coupland

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Nature made the fields and man the cities. Votes: 2

Marcus Terentius Varro

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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. Votes: 2

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Votes: 2

Arthur Keith

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Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. Votes: 2

Georg Simmel

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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight. Votes: 2

Talib Kweli

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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. Votes: 2

Barnett Newman

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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. Votes: 2

Sargent Shriver

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. Votes: 2

Sophocles

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Votes: 2

Aeschylus

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. Votes: 2

David Hume

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Votes: 2

Adam Weishaupt

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Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! Votes: 2

George A. Smith

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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. Votes: 2

Chaim Potok

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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Votes: 2

Thomas a Kempis

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Votes: 2

Leo Tolstoy

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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. Votes: 2

Alice Meynell

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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. Votes: 2

Anton Chekhov

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I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man. Votes: 2

Liu Dan

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Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature. Votes: 2

Pope Shenouda III

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In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. Votes: 2

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

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Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. Votes: 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. Votes: 2

Karl Marx

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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. Votes: 2

Octavio Paz

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Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity. Votes: 2

Ray Brassier

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In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God. Votes: 2

Ameen Rihani

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God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter. Votes: 2

Corliss Lamont

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Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self. Votes: 2

Erich Fromm

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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding Votes: 1

Jacob Bronowski

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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. Votes: 1

Swami Vivekananda

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Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun. Votes: 1

Mason Cooley

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Votes: 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Votes: 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. Votes: 1

H. G. Wells

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If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest. Votes: 1

Edwin Way Teale

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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. Votes: 1

Henry David Thoreau

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Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man. Votes: 1

Julia Quinn

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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature Votes: 1

George Orwell

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I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax Votes: 1

Richard Feynman

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Man's Place in Nature. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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Man must conquer nature. Votes: 0

Mao Zedong

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Man is nature's sole mistake. Votes: 0

W.S. Gilbert

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Man is embedded in nature. Votes: 0

Lewis Thomas

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Man is a fugitive from nature. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Art is man added to Nature. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Man by Nature desires to know. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Man by nature wants to know. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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The imagination is man's power over nature. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Votes: 0

Standing Bear

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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. Votes: 0

Mary Beth Whitehead

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Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. Votes: 0

Thomas Overbury

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Nature and man are opposed in Spain. Votes: 0

Gertrude Stein

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Man is by nature a political animal. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For man is by nature an artist. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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Man is not above nature, but in nature. Votes: 0

Ernst Haeckel

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A man should carry nature in his head. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey

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Man maketh a death which Nature never made. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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Man is more than half of nature's treasure. Votes: 0

Hartley Coleridge

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Man must go back to nature for information. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine

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Man is nature as much as the trees. Votes: 0

Dan Kiley

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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment. Votes: 0

Jacob Bronowski

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves. Votes: 0

Dogen

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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul. Votes: 0

Thomas A. Edison

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. Votes: 0

William James

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath Votes: 0

David Eddings

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Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. Votes: 0

Marco Casagrande

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I love not man the less, but Nature more. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey

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Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'. Votes: 0

Luther Standing Bear

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A man had to learn, it was his nature. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. Votes: 0

Bliss Carman

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The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature Votes: 0

Stanley Ellin

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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. Votes: 0

Baron d'Holbach

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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union. Votes: 0

Robert Burns

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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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There is a great deal of human nature in man. Votes: 0

Charles Kingsley

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The inner nature of man is the province of Music. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives. Votes: 0

Jerome Lejeune

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Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. Votes: 0

William Whewell

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself. Votes: 0

John E. Smelcer

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Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity. Votes: 0

Xun Zi

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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. Votes: 0

Pliny the Elder

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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. Votes: 0

Stewart Udall

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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble Votes: 0

Laura Dern

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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. Votes: 0

Laura Dern

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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. Votes: 0

Frederick Soddy

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Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. Votes: 0

Lin Yutang

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How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. Votes: 0

Charles Brockden Brown

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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. Votes: 0

John Calvin

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. Votes: 0

Propertius

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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her. Votes: 0

George Perkins Marsh

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When man will return to nature, nature will return to him. Votes: 0

Grigoris Deoudis

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man Votes: 0

Benito Mussolini

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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. Votes: 0

Marquis de Sade

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Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. Votes: 0

Holbrook Jackson

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Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. Votes: 0

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . . Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl Votes: 0

Allison Pearson

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George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. Votes: 0

Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. Votes: 0

Hans Arp

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It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed. Votes: 0

Malcolm X

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It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature. Votes: 0

Hans Christian Andersen

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I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. Votes: 0

Jilly Cooper

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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. Votes: 0

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. Votes: 0

Andrew Marvell

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There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions. Votes: 0

Curtis Bill Pepper

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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! Votes: 0

Edward Young

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Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man... Votes: 0

Anonymous

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Votes: 0

Henry Adams

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money. Votes: 0

Max Weber

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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. Votes: 0

Loren Eiseley

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True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. Votes: 0

E. F. Schumacher

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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's. Votes: 0

William James

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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. Votes: 0

Lin Yutang

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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized. Votes: 0

Epicurus

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. Votes: 0

Ron Perlman

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A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... Votes: 0

Tim Smit

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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby. Votes: 0

W. Kamau Bell

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The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial. Votes: 0

Xun Zi

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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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A madman imitates nature, but a wise man draws a metaphor from it. Votes: 0

Bauvard

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The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. Votes: 0

James Madison

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Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man. Votes: 0

David Hume

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I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler

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One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. Votes: 0

Edwin Forrest

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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. Votes: 0

Pope Leo XIII

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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Votes: 0

Jean Ingelow

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You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. Votes: 0

Edwin Louis Cole

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One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Votes: 0

Gabriel García Márquez

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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. Votes: 0

Ivan Turgenev

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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature. Votes: 0

William Blake

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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. Votes: 0

Ernest Jones

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Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. Votes: 0

John Henry Newman

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A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence, Votes: 0

Max Picard

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. Votes: 0

Edward Thorndike

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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. Votes: 0

Lucan

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Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains. Votes: 0

Hannibal

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. Votes: 0

Mary Martha Sherwood

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I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature. Votes: 0

John Wayne

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Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature. Votes: 0

Zhang Xianliang

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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. Votes: 0

Nan Fairbrother

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Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. Votes: 0

Mary Butts

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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature. Votes: 0

African Spir

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Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville

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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain. Votes: 0

John Eccles

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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. Votes: 0

Tryon Edwards

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The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. Votes: 0

Steven James

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See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. Votes: 0

Toussaint Louverture

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Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything. Votes: 0

James Allen

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. Votes: 0

Lucy Larcom

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A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. Votes: 0

Saint John Chrysostom

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The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant ... Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. Votes: 0

Larry Sabato

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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. Votes: 0

Margaret Fuller

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People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. Votes: 0

Russel Honore

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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Votes: 0

Thomas Otway

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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild. Votes: 0

Tim Gunn

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Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. Votes: 0

K. Hari Kumar

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes. Votes: 0

Samuel von Pufendorf

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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. Votes: 0

James D. Carswell

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man. Votes: 0

Anonymous

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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. Votes: 0

Thomas A. Edison

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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Votes: 0

Luther Standing Bear

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. Votes: 0

Lucretia Mott

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It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. Votes: 0

Confucius

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The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world? Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Votes: 0

Noah Webster

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Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. Votes: 0

Alfred Ernest Jones

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? Votes: 0

Michel Foucault

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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. Votes: 0

Ernest Jones

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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. Votes: 0

Horace

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself~? Votes: 0

Michel Foucault

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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him Votes: 0

Jostein Gaarder

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man. Votes: 0

Masataka Taketsuru

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. Votes: 0

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. Votes: 0

George Cowan

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature. Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo

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Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. Votes: 0

John Adams

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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. Votes: 0

William Osler

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We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain. Votes: 0

Edward Greenly

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. Votes: 0

Thorstein Veblen

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. Votes: 0

William Ellery Channing

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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. Votes: 0

Jean de La Fontaine

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature is hungry. It is ready to take back what the man stole from it by living. Votes: 0

Isaac Marion

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Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man. Votes: 0

Saint Francis de Sales

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. Votes: 0

Ovid

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The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. Votes: 0

John Prine

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. Votes: 0

Thales

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The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin. Votes: 0

John Bunyan

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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman. Votes: 0

Rand Paul

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. Votes: 0

John Dewey

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It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power. Votes: 0

John Fire Lame Deer

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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Man and nature belong together in their created glory â in their tragedy and in their salvation. Votes: 0

Paul Tillich

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Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man. Votes: 0

Kenneth Waltz

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What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it! Votes: 0

Piers Anthony

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. Votes: 0

Robert South

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Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. Votes: 0

Hans Jonas

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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature. Votes: 0

Democritus

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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. Votes: 0

Claudius Claudianus

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A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. Votes: 0

John Taylor

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No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good. Votes: 0

Stanley Kubrick

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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo

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Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. Votes: 0

Rachel Carson

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. Votes: 0

Alan Bleasdale

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical. Votes: 0

T.I.

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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. Votes: 0

Zeresenay Alemseged

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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy Votes: 0

Mercy Otis Warren

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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. Votes: 0

Isak Dinesen

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Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that. Votes: 0

Richard Branson

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Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. Votes: 0

Charles Sanders Peirce

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Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords. Votes: 0

George Perkins Marsh

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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. Votes: 0

Mercy Otis Warren

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Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints Votes: 0

Ludwig von Mises

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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. Votes: 0

Dennis Gabor

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...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. Votes: 0

Nikolai Berdyaev

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature. Votes: 0

Antonio Gramsci

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A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder. Votes: 0

A. R. Gurney

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Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Votes: 0

Zane Grey

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age Votes: 0

Isaac Newton

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The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. Votes: 0

Isaac Parker

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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God. Votes: 0

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. Votes: 0

William Ralph Inge

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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. Votes: 0

Dorothy Dunnett

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What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created. Votes: 0

Alan Chadwick

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In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand Votes: 0

Dan Brown

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[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. Votes: 0

Ludwig von Mises

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Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. Votes: 0

Thomas Tredgold

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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. Votes: 0

Paracelsus

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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. Votes: 0

Tertullian

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If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest. Votes: 0

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive. Votes: 0

Ricardo Semler

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We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. Votes: 0

Warren G. Harding

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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. Votes: 0

Herbert M. Shelton

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If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. Votes: 0

Antoine Rivarol

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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. Votes: 0

Pierre Charron

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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Votes: 0

Thomas More

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton

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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Votes: 0

Albert Schweitzer

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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Votes: 0

Plato

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear. Votes: 0

Carl Hubbell

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man. Votes: 0

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? Votes: 0

Walker Percy

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The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Votes: 0

Henryk Skolimowski

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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Votes: 0

Zane Grey

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But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man." Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. Votes: 0

Nicholas of Cusa

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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. Votes: 0

Paul Bowles

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By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop. Votes: 0

Brad Pitt

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I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. Votes: 0

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. Votes: 0

Hugh Hammond Bennett

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Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? Votes: 0

Kenneth E. Boulding

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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Votes: 0

Nikita Khrushchev

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The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. Votes: 0

Rousas John Rushdoony

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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices. Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen

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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. Votes: 0

Ernest Shackleton

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? Votes: 0

Horace

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So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language Votes: 0

Jean Rostand

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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. Votes: 0

Edwin Way Teale

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Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. Votes: 0

Henry Beston

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When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress. Votes: 0

Ed Begley, Jr.

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Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope! Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along. Votes: 0

Athol Fugard

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The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ. Votes: 0

Richard Wurmbrand

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In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception Votes: 0

Gene Stratton-Porter

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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? Votes: 0

Holbrook Jackson

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Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions. Votes: 0

Ruben Papian

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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. Votes: 0

Douglas William Jerrold

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Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck. Votes: 0

N.J. Berrill

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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there. Votes: 0

Lars von Trier

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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side Votes: 0

E. F. Schumacher

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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. Votes: 0

Carlos Castaneda

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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated. Votes: 0

William Penn

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It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. Votes: 0

Paracelsus

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Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. Votes: 0

John Galt

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How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence. Votes: 0

Thomas More

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At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature! Votes: 0

Dorothy L. Sayers

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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is. Votes: 0

Gertrude Atherton

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Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture. Votes: 0

Wilhelm Reich

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. Votes: 0

Helen Rowland

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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. Votes: 0

Thiruvalluvar

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Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. Votes: 0

Hans Morgenthau

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A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. Votes: 0

Edwin Percy Whipple

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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. Votes: 0

Alice James

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I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life. Votes: 0

Judy Woodruff

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Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best. Votes: 0

Plato

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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. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are. Votes: 0

Alice Walker

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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 Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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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. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it. Votes: 0

Max Eastman

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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Thomas Hobbes

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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

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Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

Edward Young

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I don't know if it is all (man's fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

Pope Francis

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Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Heinrich Heine

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It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

John Steinbeck

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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

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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

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Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

Will Herberg

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Aristotle

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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

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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

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

William Hazlitt

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If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Alfred Austin

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Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

George Stillman Hillard

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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making...

Joseph Addison

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No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

Lokendra Singh

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Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

African Spir

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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Thomas Aquinas

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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

Gore Vidal

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Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Samuel Rutherford

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Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

G. Stanley Hall

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Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Jean-Francois Millet

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There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.

Victor Hugo

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The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Henry George

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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

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Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

Loren Eiseley

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Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Martha Ostenso

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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

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Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

Nicholas Sparks

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It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Thomas Brooks

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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Thomas Hobbes

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Democritus

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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

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Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Henry Parry Liddon

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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Laurence Sterne

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Mark Twain

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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

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The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

William Bernbach

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The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Confucius

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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

Henry David Thoreau

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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Mark Hopkins

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Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Sri Chinmoy

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There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Neel Burton

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

Robert Burns

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Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Samuel Adams

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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

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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

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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

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Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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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

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Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Gene Stratton-Porter

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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Mencius

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It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

Tom DeLay

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No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Harry Bridges

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The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Henry Morton Stanley

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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Swami Vivekananda

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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

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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

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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Albert Camus

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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

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Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Kedar Joshi

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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Theodore T. Munger

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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

William Golding

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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

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In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Joseph Hertz

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As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

Lewis E. Lawes

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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

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Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Aaron Hill

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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Albert Einstein

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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as "Harshaw's Law.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Jules Michelet

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This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Pope Leo XIII

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The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Thomas Jefferson

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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Ellen Glasgow

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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

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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Malcolm X

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By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.

Thomas Jefferson

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

Henry David Thoreau

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

T. E. Brown

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Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein

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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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Everything in nature has found a niche, a perfect harmony of balance. Man need to find his niche, his perfect balance, where he fits in the natural cycle

Stephen Colbert

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The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

Henry Clarence Thiessen

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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!

William Shakespeare

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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Albert Einstein

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The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

Frederic Bastiat

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The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

John William Draper

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

Voltaire

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Erich Fromm

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I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Burns

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History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Thomas Carlyle

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Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

Carl Jung

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There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

John Ray

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Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Thomas Sowell

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The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

Vladimir Lenin

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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Ellsworth Huntington

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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Charles Baudelaire

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All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Lysander Spooner

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for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement...

Edward Weston

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Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

Adam Nevill

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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

Northrop Frye

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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Samuel Johnson

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True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Epes Sargent

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Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Thomas Jefferson

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All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

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I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

Cody Wilson

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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

Mircea Eliade

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Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

John Dewey

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

John Green

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Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Abraham Maslow

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