Best Own Nature Quotations

157 Own Nature quotes by 115 unique authors

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. — Seneca the Younger
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his… — Rumi
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no… — D. H. Lawrence
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in… — Marcus Aurelius
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. — Mary Oliver
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature. — Johann Peter Eckermann
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the… — Bodhidharma
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… — Bodhidharma
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. — Saint Augustine
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.… — Laozi
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they… — Albert Camus
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much… — Charlotte Mason
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility. — Eric Fischl
There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural… — Norman Vincent Peale
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up. — Frederick Lenz
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. — Marcus Aurelius
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and… — Helen Garner
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own… — Thomas Hobbes
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not… — John Stuart Mill
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. — Philip Pullman

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