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  • God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

    Spiritual   Reality   Men  
  • The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

    Christian   Mean   Men  
  • It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

    Sports   Men   Play  
  • Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

    Men   Flare Up   Want  
  • History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

    Song   Men   Wheels  
    George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.165, Bantam
  • There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

    Men   Two   Religion  
    James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24
  • The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

    Nature   Moving   Eye  
    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin
  • Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date.

    Philosophy   Men   Law  
    "The Conscience of a Conservative". Book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell, 1960.
  • It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

    Men   Evil   Progress  
    Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”
  • The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

    Art   War   Men  
  • Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

    Eye   Men   Missing  
    Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

    Views   Parent   Bud  
  • To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

    Men   Effort   Mind  
    United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12
  • The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

    Freedom   Men   Soul  
  • No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

    Philosophy   Men   Views  
  • Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.

  • The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.49, Hackett Publishing
  • A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

    Men   Desire   Oppression  
  • It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2010). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, p.98, HarperCollins UK
  • The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

  • Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

    Exercise   Men   Class  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions
  • Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

    Men   Blood   Overcoming  
    "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 65, 1930.
  • It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

    Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.117
  • Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.

    Strong   Men   Hands  
    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.422, Cambridge University Press
  • Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

    Exercise   Men   Moral  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions
  • Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

    Sad   Men   Animal  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK
  • In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

    Religious   War   Reality  
  • Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

    Men   Liberty   Higher  
    "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
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