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Nature Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
- Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that…
- Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
- A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not…
- In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all…
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
- If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
- This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
- In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all…
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