#nature

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#evil #feel #good #i #i feel

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conclude #could #creation #creator #fondness

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#brother #each #eddie #else #guitarist

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification. ↗

— John Hales

#deity #divine #divine nature #god #him

You have to understand the nature of light. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#nature #understand #you

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

#call #else #mad #much #nature

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#general #his #human #human nature #man

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#religion #nature

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #city #dense #different #especially