Quotes of: Divine-nature Keyword

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

Richard Thompson

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

Theo Jansen

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

Tom Shadyac

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Maggie Stiefvater

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.

Xun Zi

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Terence

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Jack Kingston

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope

Science began to be irrelevant when mankind were protected from nature instead of protecting nature from mankind.

Life

Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a verb (as Mary Daly insists), poetry is th...

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than b...

The Nature Of Natural History

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Dust to Dust

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

Echopraxia

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Ender's Game

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Elantris