Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 8

• When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Law, Gains, Bless

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• It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Heaven

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• It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

  William H. Seward

  Fall, Men, Law

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• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Law, Knowing

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• Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

  Beth Moore

  Sunset, Color, Law

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• It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Law, Goal, Kind

  Konosuke Matsushita, 松下幸之助 (2011). “My Way of Life and Thinking: 私の行き方考え方”, p.52, PHP研究所

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• These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• If you're smart or rich or lucky
  Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
  But the inner laws of spirit
  And the outer laws of nature
  No man can

  Joni Mitchell

  Smart, Men, Law

  Song: The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey, Album: Mingus, 1979

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• In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

  Samuel

  Men, Law, Speak

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• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Focus, Remember

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• The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

  Denis Diderot

  Law, Government, People

  "L'Encyclopédie", Article on Government, 1766.

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• That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.

  George Berkeley

  Mean, Sleep, Men

  George Berkeley (2013). “Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Philosophy, Law, Joy

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• To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Law, Faces

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• A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Agreement, Law, Ideas

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Law, Evil

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by B. Spinoza, ch. 2, Of Natural Right, 1883.

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• In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.

  Wernher von Braun

  Bible, Christian, Book

  "Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings". Book by Bob Phillips, 1993.

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• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sex, Passion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

  David Hume

  Law, Miracle, Facts

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.93

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

  H. G. Wells

  Law, Intellectual, Trouble

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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• Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Struggle, Animal, Law

  "Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution". "The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest". Book by Upton Sinclair, 1915.

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• Time is the supreme Law of nature.

  Arthur Eddington

  Law, Time Management, Supreme

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