Natural Quotes - Page 29

• To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Human Nature, Dare

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Violence, Aptitude, Ability

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Grief, Air

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• I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Simple, Thinking, Vision

  "Finger Lickin’ Good" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Struggle, Simple

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 27, 2017

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• It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Government, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.63, David M Gross

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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Law, Evil

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• Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

  Frederick Douglass

  Strange, Strive, Should

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.271, Chicago Review Press

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• Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Writing, Natural Talent

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• Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theism, Science And Religion, Teach

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• I'm not a natural joiner.

  J. K. Rowling

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• It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Character, Self

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• Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Needs, Ifs

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• When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

  Rene Daumal

  Thinking, Climbing, Order

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been, 'T is enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell... The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near... Every thing is upward striving; 'T is as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, - 'T is the natural way of living.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Heart, Past

  James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

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• Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

  Mark Getty

  Moving, Men, Years

  "Blood and Oil". The Economist, March 4, 2000.

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• All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Long, Life Is, Speed

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Country, Children, Sick

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• Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what is conspicuous or brilliant. Such men forget that Christian virtues, which are God's inspiration, should be viewed from the side of grace, not that of nature. The dignity or difficulty of a good action certainly affects what is technically called its accidental worth, but all essential worth must come from love alone.

  Jean-Pierre Camus

  People, Quality, Essentials

  "The Spirit of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva".

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• Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.

  Eva Longoria

  Moving, Boys, Littles

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• For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

  Max Dupain

  Sunshine, Mind, Body

  Max Dupain, Jill White, Matthew Cawood (2000). “Dupain's beaches”

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• A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Thinking, New Experiences

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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