Top 1200 Humanity And Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible to have freedom in the world when half of humanity has no rights. Because we are more than half of humanity. There are more women than men. This is not a fight of so-called "minorities."

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.