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Nature Quotes by Albert Camus
- In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in…
- Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so…
- The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
- If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage…
- The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
- We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the…
- I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
- It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they…
- I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to…
- I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
- Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given
- In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle