Natural Quotes - Page 17

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

Peace is our natural state of being.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own