Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to ...
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic sl...
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
