#natur

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. ↗

— Robert Burton

#life #love #morning #nature #night

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding? ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#beauty

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#civilization #engineering #forces #good #long

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. ↗

— William Cavendish

#airs #art #disposition #else #follow

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consider #form #him #horse #may

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#sense

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

#complete #consciousness #down #except #fact

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#great ones #money #natures #ones #only

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man