N Quotes
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“Nature has placed in your heart such strength to which there is no match.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”
Source: Principles of Morals and Legislation
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.”
Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.”
Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...
“Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]”
“Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.”
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
“Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.”
“Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.”
“Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.”
“Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.”
“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”
“Nature has so much to teach us. This is what true leadership is about, not degrading someone, insulting someone or making them feel unwanted or unwelcome. This happens too often whether it is in our private lives or at the work place. Leadership means keeping the team together and making things flow. Not to slice and dice others because of the stress that comes with the territory.”
“Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.”
“Nature has taken a deep autumnal breath, and with gusting sighs of relief has shed away the year’s heft that’s now in the rear view. Tumbling away with strewn leaves are the remnants of days gone by. Storms have been weathered, dry spells overcome, and harsh winds survived, nature is now moving forward stronger. With newly sown seeds hope is laying dormant ready to forge ahead in the ethereal sunlight, come spring. Not loosing a beat, but rising back up rejoining the rhythm and restarting the journey. A beautiful lesson in resilience at play.”
“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.”
“nature has this way of being able to hold all these beautiful contrasts and layers… earth and air, fire and flowers, light and dark, sun and moon… so maybe i can let my own spirit burn bright and wildly bloom.”
“Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.”
“Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!”
“Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.”
“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”
Source: Philosophical writings
“Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.”
Source: Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.”
“Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Nature haters? We know them too well: lifeless creatures created without emotion or aware of anything that is peripheral to their purpose.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“Nature hates calculators.”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.”
“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.”
“Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.”
Source: Leviathan
“Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.”
Source: Cymbeline
“Nature hath no goal though she hath law.”
“Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.”
Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors
“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”
“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
Source: Stone Butch Blues
“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”
“Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.”
“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God”
“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”
“Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.”
“Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.”
“Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Nature herself makes the wise man rich.”
“Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.”