#nature

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#made #majority #nature #nominations #republican

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ↗

— Aristotle

#all things #marvelous #something #things

All men by nature desire knowledge. ↗

— Aristotle

#knowledge #men #nature

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. ↗

— Aristotle

#blaze #day #evident #eyes #most

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. ↗

— Aristotle

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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. ↗

— Martha Beck

#nature #pressure #self #social #true

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human nature #nature #weak #where

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit