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Nature Quotes by James Anthony Froude
- Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother,…
- The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
- Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
- Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
- Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads…
- The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its…
- To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and…
- I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements…
- A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even…
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