#nature

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #nature #philosophy #universe #age

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion. ↗

— Robert J. McCracken

#human-nature #money #money

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#alone #bee #bees #clover #few

I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#human #human nature #i #nature

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#command #fellow #fellow human beings #his #human

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #exaggeration #fable

You can't just let nature run wild. ↗

— Walt Disney

#nature #run #wild #you

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

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