“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
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“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.”
“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
“The learned is happy, nature to explore;
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?”
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”