Quotes of: Natural-laws Keyword

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

David Novak

From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are capable of verification, and those that are not; (we must) separate by an inviolable barrier the world of fantastical ...

The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; ...

John Wycliffe

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegiti...

From Here to Eternity

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stati...

Friedrich Schiller

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The Roots of American Order

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

St. Jerome

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

Thomas Hobbes

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

Joseph P. Bradley

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Thomas Reid

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

William H. Seward

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms

's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inap...

The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, no...

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Is God like the Greek god, Zeus, sending down lightning bolts to cause catastrophic events? Does God decree when tragic or untimely deaths occur? Does God have a list and when your time is up, you die? Is it “God’s will” these events happen? On...

David W. Earle

Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Robert Benchley

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi