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.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

There is nothing more corrupting nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature than the exercise of unlimited power.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Save for the wild force of Nature nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Your nature is the Buddha.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

To me the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

Nature can do more than physicians.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Nature is neutral.

Our observation of nature must be diligent our reflection profound and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason creative geniuses are not common.

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

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.