“I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.”
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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.”
“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
“If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.”
“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.”
“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.”
“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.”
“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.”
“Gossip is nature's telephone.”
“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”