Famous Quotes About nature

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.