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Nature Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
- Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what…
- That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but…
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
- What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee,…
- Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
- Habit is the deepest law of human nature
- Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no,…
- Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
- Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
- Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
- Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
- Nature admits no lie.
- By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
- Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero
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