“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
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“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.”
“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.”
“Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.”
“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.”
“There is a great deal of human nature in man.”
“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.”
“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.”
“I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.”
“What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.”
“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
“The nature of rumor is known to all.”
“Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.”
“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.”
“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
“Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”
“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”