The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence. Nikola Tesla
Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. Jimmy Carter
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. Viggo Mortensen
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm. Jeremy Bentham
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. John Cheever
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. Morris K. Udall
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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