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Nature Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
- Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
- The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of…
- What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
- The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not…
- It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own…
- Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin…
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