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Nature Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Custom is second nature.
- Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name…
- There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
- The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want…
- Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness…
- Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
- When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with…
- He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally…
- It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
More Nature Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle