Nature & World Sayings

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't satisfactory.

I’m probably one of the most misunderstood people on earth.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

Even as a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath.

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

I have often thought, that if I were to choose a food to eat, it should be bread and water.

You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

To attribute the motion of the earth to the sun is as absurd as to attribute the motion of the sun to the earth.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

I have been thinking about the nature of things, and I have come to the conclusion that there is a good deal of it.

Indeed, nature is full of infinite reasons that have never been in experience.

Man is an animal who is constantly striving to rise to a higher altitude.

A full belly makes a dull brain.

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.