#nature

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ↗

— Evan Esar

#character #even #his #man #name

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ↗

— Euclid

#laws #mathematical #nature #thoughts

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#called #even #habit #hamlet #highly

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#become #change #economy #happen #help

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws. ↗

— Donald Fagen

#flaws #i #look #nature #often

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comic #comic strips #end #end result #established

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#art #come #emotion #into #measure

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #civilization #confidence #engagement #every

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#did #different #majority #merit #mould