Quotes with nature

Quotes 781 till 800 of 832.

  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Stewart Brand When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
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  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Marguerite Duras When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Brad Feld When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Albert Claude When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Confucius When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Becker When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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  • Albert Einstein When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Arthur Keith Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • August Strindberg Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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