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Nature Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The…
- He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
- Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked
- Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
- It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
- At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
- Nature is always behind the age
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this…
- If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...
- The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
- It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- Art, like Nature, has her monsters
- Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
- The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities,…
- Nature constantly imitates art.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I…
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
- Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and…
- The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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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