Counterfeit Quote by Laozi

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

— Mark Nepo

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the…

— Marquis de Sade

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on…

— Wendell Berry

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our…

— Diane Ackerman

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds…

— Henry David Thoreau

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the…

— George Mason

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss