#nature

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. ↗

— Alan Watts

#becomes #certain #clings #faith #fanatic

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#any #avoid #behavior #being #communication

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#i #i feel #linear #myself #nature

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#capable #comparable #discovery #give #happiness

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #design #everyone #human #human nature

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#away #first #gives #nature #present

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. ↗

— Orson Welles

#hate #human #human nature #nature #race

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#designed #hold #magnet #material #memory

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. ↗

— James Whistler

#nature #painter #piano #player #say

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#nature #beauty