Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“fossils show that life started on earth around 3.5 billion years ago, relatively soon after the earth itself formed, and almost immediately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First of all, we now know,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We all have a purpose here on earth and that is to learn and to love... our life here on earth is… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
“All of the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
If people would only realize that if one leads a life in cooperation with Nature and not against it, then nobody in… — Sufan Wyszynski Copy Share Image
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The amount of energy stored in all the fossil fuel on earth is negligible compared to the amount that the sun dispenses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. — Edmund Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production;… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature. Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf… — Darren Clarke Copy Share Image
As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Everybody has their time here on earth, use it wisely and stay away from people who like to use and abuse you... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
“There is a phrase, ātl tlachinolli, ‘the water that scorches the earth.’ My name means ‘water’ but it is also war.” — Silvia Moreno-Garcia Copy Share Image
“Your value does not depend on your husband’s treatment or opinion of you. Your husband is a fallible human being carrying around… — Linda Rooks Copy Share Image
When all the guilt that's in your head, turns its back and plays for dead, you scorch the earth and torch the… — Def Leppard Copy Share Image