Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. Bodhidharma
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. Edward Thorndike
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. Marco Rubio
It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.' Marco Rubio
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. Sue Grafton
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. William Lyon Phelps
Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. Tom Hiddleston
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. Larry Bird
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing. John Donne
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. Herbert Read
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. Hermann Hesse
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. William Burroughs
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski
I like my home and I like the nature. Billy Corgan
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Jean Ingelow
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. Noam Chomsky