“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: nature
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When a man and a woman have
“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
Author: Nicolas Chamfort
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The art of medicine consists in amusing
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
— Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
— Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
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One of the greatest pains to human
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
— Walter Bagehot
Author: Walter Bagehot
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The principle that human nature, in its
“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
— Noam Chomsky
Author: Noam Chomsky
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An architect should live as little in
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature
“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
— Laurence J. Peter
Author: Laurence J. Peter
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Nature abhors annihilation.
“Nature abhors annihilation.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I realise that in this undertaking I
“I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.”
— Georg Cantor
Author: Georg Cantor
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