206.Quotes On Men:Nature:Modern-Part 6
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"I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea;nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.." -William Wordsworth-
"It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.".-Albert Camus-
"The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.".-Bernard Mandeville
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"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ''The computer is down''".-Norman Augustine-
"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.".-Winston Churchill-
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"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.".-Albert Einstein-
"Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.".-Alexander Pope-
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.".-Aristotle-
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue;it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.".-Bernard Mandeville-
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.".-Blaise Pascal-
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"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.".-Camille Paglia-
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.".-Francis Bacon-
"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-
"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!".-Henry Fielding-
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government;but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.".-Herbert Spencer-
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.".-N. Rowe-
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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.".-Primo Levi-
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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