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Nature Quotes by Mark Twain
- We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
- One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
- The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
- Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
- So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country…
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly…
- It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
- Architects cannot teach nature anything.
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.…
- If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
- Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
- When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature…
- Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and…
- Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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- 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