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Nature Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as…
- Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up…
- When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not…
- The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down…
- Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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