Nature Quotes

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

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

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.