Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch Spinoza

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
Bruce Springsteen

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
Bruce Springsteen

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Salman Rushdie

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
Bob Barker

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
Gottfried Leibniz

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Raymond Chandler

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
Charles de Montesquieu

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Enya