Pastoral Resources

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.