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Nature

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. – Hermann Hesse

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. – William Burroughs

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

The nature of rumor is known to all. – Tertullian

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. – Jean Ingelow

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. – Adolf Loos

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. – Zora Neale Hurston

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. – Tim Burton

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. – Empedocles

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. – Denis Diderot

Nature is neutral. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. – Maria Mitchell

Nature can do more than physicians. – Oliver Cromwell