Nature Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“proceeds from the conviction that if the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature,”

— Larry Korn

“It is therefore no wonder that modern thought, to the extent that it reduces man from a spiritual to a purely biological entity, elevates…

— Sanford Schwartz

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the…

— James Allen

“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as…

— Hermann Hesse

“Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains…

— James Allen

“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are abstract, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If his judgment is to be an object of sacrifice — what sort of efficacy, control, freedom from conflict, or serenity of spirit will…

— Ayn Rand

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Man does not have the power to begin by himself any change in spiritual things ... There is no limit or boundary within human…

— G C Berkouwer