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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Adam Weishaupt

Clergyman · German · 1748 – 1830

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

Scientist · American · b. 1929

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Lajos Kossuth

Lawyer · Hungarian · 1802 – 1894

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Terence

Writer · Roman

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Daniel Webster

Statesman · American · 1782 – 1852

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

Politician · American · 1755 – 1804

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

William Lyon Phelps

Educator · American · 1865 – 1943

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Brent Scowcroft

Public Servant · American · b. 1925

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

Scientist · Scottish · 1866 – 1955

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

John Burroughs

Author · American · 1837 – 1921

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Novelist · American · 1804 – 1864

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Chaim Potok

Author · American · 1929 – 2002

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

Editor · French · 1713 – 1784

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Stephen Gardiner

Architect · British · 1924 – 2007

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Peter De Vries

Novelist · American · 1910 – 1993

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Scientist · Polish · 1473 – 1543

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Author · American

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne

Architect · American · b. 1942

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A. E. Housman

Poet · English · 1859 – 1936

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Author · Irish · 1892 – 1983

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

Writer · American · b. 1932

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

Artist · French · 1839 – 1906

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

Poet · American · 1879 – 1955

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Edwin Louis Cole

Author · American

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Kate Adie

Journalist · British · b. 1945

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

Royalty · English · 1533 – 1603

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Joseph Butler

Clergyman · English · 1692 – 1752

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Zebulon Pike

Soldier · American · 1779 – 1813

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

Paul Ricoeur

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 2005

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.

George MacDonald

Novelist · Scottish · 1824 – 1905

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist · Italian · 1452 – 1519

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Tim LaHaye

Clergyman · American · b. 1926

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

Saint · 354 – 430

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Andrew Cohen

Writer · American

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Murray Gell Mann

Physicist · American · b. 1929

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