Quotes
Quotes about Nature
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.
Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
Habit is a second nature.
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
And thus he mused, "From here indeed, shall we strike terror in the Swede. A city built here by our labor, Shall frighten then, our haughty neighbor. A window into Europe, we Shall cut, by Nature's own decree...
A goddess is, by nature, half a whore
None of us understands the nature of a poem, play or novel as well as he thinks.
There are cerebral experiences of a nature too complex to be susceptible of expression through any medium except that of music
It is in the nature of a structure to be as inexplicable as a passage of music
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly.
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
If we take away plot, character, dialogue, even characters, we shall be left with something that is common to the most traditional and avant-garde novelist - a concern with interpreting, through the imagination, the flux of ordinary life; an attempt to understand, though not with the cold deliberation of the scientist, the nature of the external world and the mind that surveys it
Nature's statements are simple enough: all change is circular
Where was truth, where did a man's true nature lie? There was, as it were, an essence and there was also an existence
So many of our troubles spring from nature, not from the actions of men. Or women
That man does not properly understand the nature of sin, thanks to the blinding power of the devil, in no way mitigates the horror of the impact of sin on the pure radience of God
We are forced, by the very nature of language, to generalize
I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something, too, of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality
Nature ignored or ill-treated has a way of expressing her resentment
