Quotes 401 till 420 of 1127.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
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In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431) -
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359) -
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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