3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
3 December 2020 Lauryn Hill Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
3 December 2020 Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
3 December 2020 Sai Baba Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
3 December 2020 David Hume Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
3 December 2020 William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
3 December 2020 Paracelsus The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
