Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
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.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
