Nature Of Man Quotes (page 9)

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• equality
• solitude
• death

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator. Thaddeus Stevens

• affection
• soul
• nature

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Daniel Boone

• happy
• nature
• marriage

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin

• work
• learning
• challenge

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny the Elder

• nature
• humanity
• science

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. David Hume

• manly
• happy
• war

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. James Thomson

• affection
• charity
• mindfulness

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. Zhuangzi

• nature
• words
• manly

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. Edwin Louis Cole

• appearance
• today
• power

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. Frederick Soddy

• manly
• soul
• text

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. Ernest Shackleton

• manly
• humanity
• great

There is a great deal of human nature in man. Charles Kingsley

• nature
• support
• giving

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev

• success
• nature
• meditation

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. James Allen

• manly
• influence
• evil

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Mahatma Gandhi

• wise
• nature
• him

Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute. Herman Hesse