Nature Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
All Nature wears one universal grin.
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
Revolt against a tyrant is legitimate; it can succeed. Revolt against human nature is doomed to failure.
Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Vehement by nature, vacillating by choice. Which way to tend? Which whom to side? What self to join?
Friend, bethink you first what it is that you would do, and then what your own nature is able to bear. (104)
Art is the signature of civilizations.
One may choose to call that "god" even if one does not know the precise nature of the first cause.
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.
[In response to a lady who said that a landscape reminded her of his work] Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.
Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.