Natural Quotes - page 3

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. View quote
Richard Eberhart
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. View quote
Charles Cooley
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. View quote
Zack Snyder
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. (José Martí)
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. View quote
Charles Darwin
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. View quote
John Updike
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. View quote
Michael Pollan
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. View quote
Jean Piaget
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece'' View quote
James Thurber
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. View quote
William James
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. View quote
Thomas Paine
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. (Marcus Aurelius)
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. View quote
Cicero
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. View quote
Steve Martin
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. View quote
Edmund Burke
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. View quote
Edmund Burke