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Nature Quotes by Mencius
- The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
- When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with…
- By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
- He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature
- Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good…
- It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed…
- Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that…
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