Nature Of Man Quotes

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”
― Judith McNaught

“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between

“Everyone owes nature a death.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.”
― Emerson Ralph Waldo

“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man is the chief of this. All creations are his just inheritance. You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality.”
― Saul Bellow, Seize the Day

“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.”
― John Fowles, The Tree

“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines

“Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.”
― Brian Rathbone, Call of the Herald

“All errour is prejudicial: it is by deceiving himself that man is plunged in misery. He neglected Nature; he understood not her laws; he formed gods of the most preposterous kinds: these became the sole objects of his hope, the creatures of his fear, and he trembled under these visionary deities; under the supposed influence of imaginary beings created by himself; under the terrour inspired by blocks of stone; by logs of wood; by flying fish; or else under the frowns of men, mortal as himself, whom his distempered fancy had elevated above that Nature of which alone he is capable of forming any idea.”
― Baron d'Holbach

“Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations, or drawn by contrary impulsions, his natural tendency is deranged; he is under the necessity to follow a new route; this conducts him to his end, which it even displays to him as the most desirable good.”
― Baron d'Holbach

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, at least, let him be permitted to enjoy the fruit of his labour; let not his substance be ravaged from him by cruel imposts; let him not be discouraged from work, by finding all his labour inadequate to support his existence, let him not be driven into that idleness that will surely lead him on to crime: let him consider his present existence, without carrying his views to that which may attend him after his death: let his industry be excited; let his talents be rewarded; let him be rendered active, laborious, beneficent, and virtuous, in the world he inhabits; let it be shown to him that his actions are capable of having an influence over his fellow men, but not on those imaginary beings located in an ideal world.”
― Baron d'Holbach

“Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!”
― Steven Magee, Light Forensics

“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like a tree. Were she to break open a bone, perhaps it would look like the inside of a coffee mug - riddled with lines, stained with brown blotches.”
― Benjamin Percy, The Wilding

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”
― Reid A. Ashbaucher, Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World

“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.

One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.

I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1836-1838

“You could trust nature but not man”
― Harlan Coben, Tell No One

“Kindness to animals is how humans demonstrate respect for the purity we have lost.”
― Stewart Stafford

“None can predict one's real nature when everything goes in a perfect way.”
― Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life

“She asked him "What do you do when you feel alone and lonely?"
And he said "I talk to the mountains!”
― Avijeet Das

“Wär' nicht das Auge sonnenhaft,
Wie könnten wir das Licht erblicken?
Lebt' nicht in uns des Gottes eigne Kraft,
Wie könnt' uns Göttliches entzücken?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man conscious of his pain is more real than a man who is unconscious of his happiness thus exhibiting his unreal nature.” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the actual reality! Our preference of technology over nature proves that Man is experiencing everything through the HEAD. What a pity!” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“You can’t overleap nature with logic alone! Logic will presuppose 3 cases, when there are a million of them! Cut away the whole million, and reduce everything to the one question of comfort! The easiest solution to the problem! Enticingly clear, and there’s no need to think! Above all, there’s no need to think! The whole of life’s mystery can fit on two printed pages!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The notion of separation is a great mistake. To believe yourself separate from Nature Herself is to believe in an enormous fallacy. The Mind & Will of the Universe are your Mind & Will. Know this. Accept is as a given fact.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“...they think a man is made real by the violence he wields.”
― John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

“We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.”
― Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing

“If you wish to discover a person's true nature, give them everything necessary to be happy.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“She knew how to learn the true measure of an individual: Watch what he does to someone he believes is at his mercy.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“Humanity can pretend that we’re more refined and evolved than our early primate ancestors, but the fact remains, we revel in violence.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“People crave structure at their core. They want safety and to know that someone will kiss their bruises when they fall. They long for parents.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho