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Nature Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
- In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly…
- Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
- What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder…
- Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can…
- Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature,…
- We monsters are necessary to nature also.
- There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
- Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
- Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
- All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost…
- The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of…
- Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this…
- Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
- Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the…
- The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
- The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise…
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