Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

I admire people who are by nature kind and fair to others.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject but to realize sensations.

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

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.

The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I love not man the less but Nature more.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.