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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
– Abdolkarim Soroush
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We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
– David Suzuki
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
– Benjamin Carson
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
– Marco Rubio
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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
– Anthony Hopkins
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Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
– Sir Walter Scott
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
– James Whistler
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To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
– David Hockney
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
– James Buchan
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
– Bodhidharma
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
– Adam Smith
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
– Bodhidharma
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
– Max Beerbohm
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
– George Santayana
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
– Xun Zi
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
– Robert Bork
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
– Ovid
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
– Izaak Walton
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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
– William Burroughs
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
– Jane Austen
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There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
– Greg Kinnear
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There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
– Marguerite Moreau
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
– Wole Soyinka
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There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
– Edward Hopper
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
– Charles Eastman
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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
– William Henry Harrison
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
– Robert Wilson Lynd
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
– Marquis de Sade
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
– Tony Campolo
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
– Arthur Erickson
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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
– Stanislav Grof
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
– David Hume
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There is a great deal of human nature in man.
– Charles Kingsley
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
– Alexander Hamilton
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
– Jane Smiley
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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
– Ayelet Waldman
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
– Edouard Manet
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
– Clint Eastwood
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The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
– Pink
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The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
– H. P. Blavatsky
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
– Vera Farmiga
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
– Paul Cezanne
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
– Henry Beston
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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
– Joni Mitchell
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
– William James
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The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
– Christopher Alexander
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
– John Milton
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
– David Bailey
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
– Jules Verne
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
– Henri Poincare
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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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.
– Alfred Adler
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
– Alexander Hamilton
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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
– Helen Garner
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
– Sigmund Freud
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
– Marquis de Sade
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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
– William Shatner
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The nature of rumor is known to all.
– Tertullian
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
– John Muir
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
– James Allen
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
– Giacomo Casanova
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
– Alexander Pope
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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
– Georges Simenon
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
– Cyrano de Bergerac
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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
– Rupert Sheldrake
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The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
– Ruth Bernhard
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
– Hulk Hogan
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
– Mick Jagger
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
– William James
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
– Toni Morrison
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The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
– Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
– Thorstein Veblen
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That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
– Hugh Jackman
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
– William Wordsworth
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
– Pierre Schaeffer
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
– Lauryn Hill
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
– Xun Zi
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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
– Andrew Marvell
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
– Max Planck
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
– Adam Smith
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
– Paul Cezanne
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
– Wallace Stevens
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
– William Hazlitt
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
– Horace Walpole
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
– David Hume
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
– Wallace Stevens
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