977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” — Tennessee Williams

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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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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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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” — Francis Bacon

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

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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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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” — Samuel Butler

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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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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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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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