The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.
Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’...
In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at last act from its own resources and deliberate impulse, it is influenced through the feeling and the understanding in such a manner...
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
May Morrison: You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice.
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I ...
That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.
What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.
Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man’s nature is this: that he shall not unde...
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it ...
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal...
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
