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Nature Quotes by Confucius
- When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
- The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as…
- When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the…
- When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is…
- He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.
- One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good,…
- The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
- It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
- place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his…
- From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of…
- Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
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