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Nature Quotes by Edmund Burke
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity…
- The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
- Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
- All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,…
- Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
- This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with…
- Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and…
- Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
- The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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