N Quotes
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“Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.”
“Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.”
“Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.”
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)”
Source: The Epistles of Horace
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.”
“Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.”
“Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.”
“Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Nature abhors a garden.”
“Nature abhors a gradient.”
“Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.”
“Nature abhors a moron.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.”
“Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.”
“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”
“Nature abhors annihilation.”
“Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]”
“Nature abhors the vacuum tube.”
“Nature abhors waste. And so should we.”
“Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.”
“Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.”
“Nature admits no lie.”
“Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.”
“Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics”
Source: Gesammelte Werke
“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.”
“Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
“Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“Nature alone is the master of true genius.”
“Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones.”
“Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.”
Source: Van Gogh's
“Nature always find it's way, we are nature...”
“Nature always finds its way, we are nature...”
“Nature always has its way of showing its power and might. Majestic, full of life, and passionate; yet graceful, calm, and not forceful.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Nature always levies her tribute.”
Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran
“Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.”
Source: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
“Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.”
“Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.”
“Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.”
“Nature always takes you at your own valuation. Believe you are the child of God-really believe it. Believe that you express Divine Life, Divine Truth, and Divine Love. Believe that Divine Wisdom guides you. Believe that God is your supply. Believe that God is helping and blessing humanity through you. Believe that you are a special enterprise on the part of God and that he is opening your way-and what you really believe, that you will demonstrate.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures
“Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.”
“Nature and animals, especially living with them for as long as I have - gives you the gift of yourself, gives you the opportunity to discover and experience your own individual nature within yourself.”
“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”
Source: Essays, First and Second Series
“Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.”