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Nature Quotes by Henry Adams
- Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the…
- A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming…
- The proper study of mankind is woman.
- The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is…
- Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this…
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
- From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must…
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