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Nature Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have…
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
- The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
- Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly…
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
- How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
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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