#nature

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. ↗

— Xun Zi

#anybody #conflicts #conventions #criminal #end

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer. ↗

— Pat Brown

#crime #does #killer #make #mean

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#all things #art #artificial #god #things

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz. ↗

— Ken Burns

#ever #jazz #nature #person #very

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. ↗

— Beck

#aspect #attitude #child #darling #face

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#good #good nature #honor #knowledge #money