“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.”
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“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
“I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.”
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”
“Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.”
“Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.”
“Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.”
“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”
“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”
“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
“Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.”
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.”
“Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.”
“Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.”
“To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.”
“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.”
“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.”
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
“Custom is second nature.”