Quotes with nature…

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  • George Bernard Shaw The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • John Williamson The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Camille Paglia The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Kay The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Anthony Trollope The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer 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
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Meister Eckhart The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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