A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. Wallace Stevens
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. Michael Sheen
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. Titus Livius
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Arthur C. Clarke
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature. Xun Zi
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. Wilhelm von Humboldt
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. William C. Bryant
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. Sienna Miller
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. C. Northcote Parkinson
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. Baruch Spinoza
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. Bhumibol Adulyadej
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. Adam Weishaupt
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. Nathan Fillion
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. Lauryn Hill
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. Annie Leibovitz
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature. Bryan Cranston
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. Bjork