1,057 quotes found
“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with sm...”
“Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and na...”
“I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.”
“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.”
“I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.”
“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.”
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
“The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and n...”
“I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.”
“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.”
“The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teac...”
“We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans...”
“A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.”
“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
