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Nature Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work…
- He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There…
- There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a…
- Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for…
- All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
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