“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
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“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”
“The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.”
“To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
“For greed all nature is too little.”
“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”
“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”
“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.”