“This is the nature of love,” Vashet said. “To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. That is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Nature's probably my greatest inspiration. Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't… — Todd Michael Cox Copy Share Image
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas… — bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun,… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived… — James Galvin Copy Share Image
“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
“Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“If I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away in pining and longing for your… — Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Copy Share Image
One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie… — Daniel Duane Copy Share Image
“For reasons that will become clear in due course, I submit that the gospel is not primarily about the necessity of the… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image