The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer

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

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Susan Sontag

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope