202.Quotes On Men:Nature:Modern-Part 2

"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.." -William B. Yeats-

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"A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-

"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.".-Wyndham Lewis-

"We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.".-Alexander Herzen

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"The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.".-C. Wright Mills-

"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.".-Donald Culross Peattie-

"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.".-Ivan Illich-

"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.".-Oscar Wilde-

"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.".-Upton Sinclair-

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"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.".-Adlai E. Stevenson-

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.".-Aleister Crowley-

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.".-Anatole France-

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.".-Aristotle-

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.".-Baruch Spinoza-

"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.".-Blaise Pascal-

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"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.".-Calvin Coolidge-

"A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.".-Charles Lamb-

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.".-Dale Carnegie-

"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.".-Fran Lebowitz-

"Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.".-Francis Herbert Hedge-

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-

"For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is".-Henry David Thoreau-

"Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here bo".-Henry Miller-

"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-

"Colors are the smiles of nature.".-Leigh Hunt-

"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.".-Luigi Pirandello-

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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.".-Nathaniel Hawthorne-

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward;all things are brought into being with a changing nature;the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.".-Ovid-

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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