No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
It is my nature to thin where others read.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.