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Nature Quotes by Xunzi
- Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet…
- Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
- Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and…
- Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
- Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
- Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each…
- In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
- Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules…
- Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest…
- Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
- The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.
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