Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
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.
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
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.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
Science began to be irrelevant when mankind were protected from nature instead of protecting nature from mankind.
One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.
In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
