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- A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with…
- In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of…
- The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a…
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time…
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
- The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting…
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