“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
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“All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.”
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
“America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.”
“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”
“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”
“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.”
“But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.”
“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.”
“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.”
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”
“Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.”
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
“Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.”
“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”
“Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”
“It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.”
“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”
“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”