Best Natural Law Quotes
126 Natural Law quotes by 111 unique authors
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,…
— John Dewey
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It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the…
— Hannah Arendt
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If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a…
— Grace Hopper
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A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to…
— Richard Heinberg
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in…
— Jerome Lejeune
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and…
— William A. Dembski
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If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and…
— Max Born
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Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all…
— Steven Erikson
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Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped.…
— Yuri Gagarin
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
— Barry Diller
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Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or…
— Gianni Vattimo
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Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God'…
— Wilhelm Reich
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A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might…
— Ben Ames Williams
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek…
— Hakim Bey
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
— Randy Alcorn
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Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
— Anton Webern
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Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
— Karl Popper
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... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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