Quotes of: Natural-man Keyword

An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a being whom he does not conceive, and who is said to unite incompatible qualities.

The System of Nature, Vol. 2

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

The Machine Stops

But dogmatism--or the inclination 'to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking'--is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing "Ame," Dictionnaire philosophique, ed....

Natural Right and History

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' natu...

Michael Grunwald

George Kittredge: But a man expects his wife to... Tracy Lord: Behave herself. Naturally. C. K. Dexter Haven: To behave herself naturally. [George gives him a look] C. K. Dexter Haven: Sorry.

The Philadelphia Story

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural tha...

Richard Le Gallienne

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

The Education of Henry Adams

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Blaise Pascal

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

John Calvin

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Henry Miller

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

Joel Sternfeld

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to ...

The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set ...

Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is...

Leo Tolstoy

[Darwin] gave an answer to the tremendous question that so deeply concerns...What is Man? [He] answered this question to the effect that man is a natural product of the universe;...man is an animal, a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate....By bringin...

George Gaylord Simpson