The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
