Quotes with nature

Quotes 661 till 680 of 832.

  • John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Peers The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
    John Peers
    Australian tennis player
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  • Francis Bacon The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Carroll Quigley The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Algernon Sydney The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • F. L. Lucan The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Susanna Moodie The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
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  • I Ching 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.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • William Shakespeare The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • James Thurber The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Abraham Cowley The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Edith Hamilton Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Ben Hecht There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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