Nature & World Sayings

140 sayings found from the Modern era from 140 authors

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

— Henry David Thoreau 1843
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

— Ayn Rand 1936
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

— Sigmund Freud Unknown
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The environment not only goads or releases, it selects.

— B.F. Skinner 1974
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

— William James Unknown, early 20th century
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The human being is an animal that can say 'no'.

— Georg Simmel 1918
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The essence of human nature is to be social.

— Emile Durkheim 1925 (posthumous)
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The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1849
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

— Charles Dickens 1861
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me.

— Franz Kafka 1917
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

— George Orwell 1945
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

— Aldous Huxley 1950s
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The rain came down, sluicing the blood from the cobblestones, and the day was clean and washed.

— Ernest Hemingway 1926
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

— Oscar Wilde 1895
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

— Walt Whitman 1855
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The Brain – is wider than the Sky – For – put them side by side – The one the other will contain With ease – and You – beside –

— Emily Dickinson c. 1862
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Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

— Robert Frost 1916
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Leave me to the sea, to the waves, to the wind, to the sun, to the moon, to the stars, to the infinite.

— Pablo Neruda Unknown
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