Nature Quotes

"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Hidden nature is secret God"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Human nature is not of itself vicious"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master"

Henry James, Writer

"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"All nature is but art unknown to thee"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul"

Ovid, Poet

"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver"

Martin Luther, Professor

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

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