Nature & World Sayings

The true nature of man is to be free.

Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence to support this.

I am the most terrible animal that’s ever existed.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things.

I am a child of nature, who has been taught to think; and I will not resign my birthright for a mess of pottage.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

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

The environment not only goads or releases, it selects.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Man is the most intelligent of animals – and the most foolish.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

If you're sending a girl flowers, and she's going on a girls trip, then you will get shut down.

The human being is an animal that can say 'no'.