Top 1200 Nature Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.