Top 1200 Nature Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.

When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!