Natural Man Quotes (page 2)

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• nature
• new
• manly

Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional...If one deducts the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted away humanity, humaneness, and 'human dignity'. Friedrich Nietzsche

• sad
• color
• fire

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• hand
• inspirational
• winning

Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee John Steinbeck

• nature
• light
• life

Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benelovence which shall lose all particular regards in it's general light, the introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one; which is the enchantment of human life; which, like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period, and works a revolution in his mind and body; unites him to his race. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• knowledge
• contentment
• mind

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think Ayn Rand

• bad
• nature
• manly

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. Carlos Castaneda

• nature
• mindfulness
• history

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature. Antonio Gramsci

• nature
• women
• bird

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. Jonathan Lethem

• nature
• manly
• conquers

Nature is not to be conquered, man is. Ayn Rand

• nature
• genius
• manly

Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody. Bruno Schulz

• nature
• manly
• indecent

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Heinrich Heine

• mirror
• commitment
• water

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. Fernando Pessoa

• nature
• wonder
• wonderful

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul. Thomas Edison

• nature
• god
• him

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. Dorothy Dunnett

• suits
• magic
• fruit

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Ralph Waldo Emerson