“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.”
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“When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.”
“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.”
“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.”
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
“Nature is neutral.”
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
“I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.”
“Nature can do more than physicians.”
“To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.”
“To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.”
“Your nature is the Buddha.”
“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.”
“None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.”
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”
“God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.”
“In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.”
“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”
“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
“It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.”
“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”