977 private quotes tagged nature

“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” — Voltaire

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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.” — Anatole France

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“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.” — Alexander Pope

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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” — Francis Bacon

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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” — Edmund Burke

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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.” — Anatole France

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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

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“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck

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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.” — Thomas Paine

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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.” — Blaise Pascal

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” — Richard Dawkins

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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