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Nature Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
- It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only…
- Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
- Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the…
- True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature…
- What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social…
- Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to…
- Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course,…
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