Natural Quotes - Page 37

• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Helping, Guides, Prudence

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

  Epicurus

  Fancy, Wealth, Vain

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

  David Puttnam

  Diversity, Force, Certain

  "News Corporation has sought to undermine elected governments" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2012.

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• When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Law, Feminism

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.57, Booklassic

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• Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

  Woody Harrelson

  Misunderstood, Killers, Comedy

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Rights, Law

  William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Feet

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

  Eustace Budgell

  Self, Ideas, Desire

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• It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Time, Oil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Character, Order, Consistency

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• Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Decision, Partners

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

  Paul Davies

  Competition, Would Be, Earth

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• He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Two, Mind, Body

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.195, Routledge

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• It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

  Friedrich Engels

  Running, Russia, Frontiers

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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• "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Nice, Piano

  "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.

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• Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

  Max Weber

  Law, Important, Valuable

  Max Weber, Edward Shils, Henry A. Finch (1949). “The methodology of the social sciences”, Free Pr

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• I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.19, Penguin

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• When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Children, Fighting, Encounters

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• Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Eye, Spirit

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 12, 2016

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

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• A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

  Monique Wittig

  Men, Practice, Ideas

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• When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Modern, Equality Of Man

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5033, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.

  Victor Cousin

  Country, Men, Wind

  Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240

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