A completely dead human soul, deprived of its natural work, is like muddy and stinking water, confined in a tight space.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. And the Spirit can do nothing of himself; but what he hears from the Father and Son; and it is impossible it should be otherwise, considering not only the unity of their nature, but also of their will and design.
—John Flavel
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
Self-actualized people… live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”
“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is utterly impossible to make a man better without Christ, and that is what men are trying to do. They are trying to patch up this old Adam’s nature. There must be a new creation.
—D. L. Moody
“If ye then be risen with Christ, live according to your risen nature, for your life is hid with Christ in God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
—Socrates
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
—Voltaire
“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.
—Amy Carmichael
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
—Thomas Edison
Men argue. Nature acts.
—Voltaire
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. And the Spirit can do nothing of himself; but what he hears from the Father and Son; and it is impossible it should be otherwise, considering not only the unity of their nature, but also of their will and design.
—John Flavel
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
—Aldous Huxley
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
—Aldous Huxley
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
—Vincent Van Gogh