Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
It is human nature to think we must have deliverance from something, when usually we need deliverance in that something. That is the essence of Hope.
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
