We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. Leonardo da Vinci
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. Niccolo Machiavelli
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. Saint Augustine
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Lord Byron
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. Victor Hugo
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. Victor Hugo
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. Karl Marx
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine