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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
Stephen Hawking
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
Stephen Hawking
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
Horace
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”
Plato
“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
Plato
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
Plato
“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
Plato
“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”
Plato
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
Coco Chanel
“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Karl Marx
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
Aristotle
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
Aristotle
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Aristotle
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
Aristotle
“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
Aristotle
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”
Aristotle
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
Aristotle
“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”
Aristotle
“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
Aristotle
“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”
Aristotle
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
Salvador Dali
“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
Honore de Balzac
“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
Honore de Balzac
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
Honore de Balzac
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”
Honore de Balzac
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Aldous Huxley
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
