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Nature

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. – Reinhold Niebuhr

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. – Henry Rollins

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. – Xun Zi

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

The Amen of nature is always a flower. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. – David Herbert Lawrence

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

No speech can stain what is noble by nature. – Sophocles

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

Everything in excess is opposed to nature. – Hippocrates

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. – Thomas Aquinas

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. – H. G. Wells

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. – Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. – Alfred Adler

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. – William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt