I Quotes
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“It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”
Source: Pensées
“It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.”
Source: An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
“It is natural for us to form first impressions when we meet someone. The challenge is to remain open to letting the other perception to change.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.”
Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays
“It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.”
Source: The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
“It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.”
Source: Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob
“It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
Experiment and Theory in Physics”
“It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.”
“It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.”
“It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.”
Source: The Militant Agnostic
“It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.”
“It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.”
“It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.”
Source: Character
“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”
Source: Brave New World
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a hundred years, no one alive who yet cares for him has any natural reason for doing so. In the several decades following a man’s death, those who knew him might carry a torch for his memory, describe the love they received from him, and champion the spirit they have inherited from him. However, if people are still willing to listen to a man one hundred years after his death, he speaks from the grave. After natural affection passes, if any affection remains, it is supernatural.”
“It is natural to die as to be born.”
“It is natural to doubt. It is part of our humanity to fear. But the greater part of us is that which doubts both and fears neither.”
“It is natural to feel angry once in a while, but it becomes a serious problem when you are getting angry regularly even in routine situations at home or in the office. When the anger becomes frequent and flares up at the slightest provocation, it is an indication that all is not well in your life. Frequent and uncontrolled anger is a symptom of a fragile state of mind, which gets manifested at the slightest unfavourable situation.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It is natural to feel happy when you achieve something, or when somebody appreciates your efforts. But try to recall something out of the ordinary that made you feel complete.”
“It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
Source: The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.”
“It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
“It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.”
Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life
“It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them and things more familiar or better known. In many cases, we have no better way of judging. And, where the things compared have really a great similitude in their nature, when there is reason to think that they are subject to the same laws, there may be a considerable degree of probability in conclusions drawn from analogy.”
Source: Philosophical works
“It is natural to pray, when in pain.”
“It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.”
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics
“It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.”
Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch
“it is natural to want to employ your friends when you find yourself in times of need. The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften the harshness. Besides, you know them. Why depend on a stranger when you have a friend at hand?
The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument. They cover up their unpleasant qualities so as not offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each others jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in clothes - maybe they mean, often they do not.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.”
“It is natural to want to have a future.”
“It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.”
Source: Utopia
“It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.”
“It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".”
Source: The Bhagavadgita or The Song Divine
“It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.”
Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”
“It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again, it is torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself...”
Source: Nevermore
“It is naught else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust of our being; that we are in God, and God is in us. No more. No demands for proof, no promise that sorrow would be banished. Nothing but the sure trust of our Being.”
“It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.”
“It is near impossible to be a valiant warrior if you hate your enemy.”
“It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.”
“It is near time to speak of Peter – not the saint, but the Bishop of Lewes. Gethsemane was significant to Peter. He made it significant to others. There is a house in the South Downs of England, between Berwick and Wilmington, a bishop’s house – a former bishop – where the Garden of Gethsemane was made manifest.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.”
“It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.”
“It is nearly impossible for a person who grew up without both parents to have a non-dysfunctional adulthood or relationships.”
“It is nearly impossible.'
'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.”
Source: The Nightingale