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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
— Blaise Pascal
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
— Patrick Henry
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
— Nancy Gibbs
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
— William Henry Drummond
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
— George Mason
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;
— Walt Whitman
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
— George Santayana
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
— G.K. Chesterton
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
— Ernest Becker
[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.
— C.S. Lewis
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,
— Bernie Krause
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
— Oscar Wilde
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
— Francis Bacon
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
— George Santayana
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
— Norman Mailer
God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man
— Leopold Kronecker
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
— Benjamin Franklin
Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
— Henry David Thoreau
If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal
— Justin Southwick
The desire to know is natural to good men.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.
— Neal A. Maxwell
The wicked natural man loves contest; the weak natural man loves excitement. An
— Mrs. Alfred Gatty
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
— Erich Fromm
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
— Albert Einstein
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
— George Mason
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.
— Dave Eggers
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
— William Godwin
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
— H.L. Mencken
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents.
Journalism. — Charlie LeDuff
Journalism. — Charlie LeDuff
It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
— Paul De Man
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
— William Blackstone
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.
— Demetri Martin
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
— Charles Spurgeon
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
— Samuel Johnson
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
— Bertrand Russell
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
— Charles James Fox
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
— Archibald Wavell
We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
— Frank Chodorov
The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
— Nelson Mandela
The man was a natural, a real pleasure to watch--and not only for his skill. God certainly hadn't put him together on a Friday afternoon.
— Karen Kendall
Natural things gave back more than they took, and their sounds always brought him back to the way man was supposed to be.
— Nicholas Sparks
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
— Herbert Read
If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. ... during the week.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster.
— Michael Lewis
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
— Woodrow Wilson
Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
— R.C. Sproul
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.
— Lotte Hass
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
— Ben Shahn
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.
— David James Duncan
Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E.F. Schumacher
When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.
— Paul Auster
Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
— Clark Gable
The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.
— Norman Mailer
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
— Mark Twain
More than the disappearing trees and roses, it's the human tendency to suppress the 'Natural Voice' of the 'Nature's Man' which is sorrowful.
— Ashutosh Gupta
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
— Adam Smith
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
— Michel De Montaigne
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
— Paul Verhoeven
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
— Hans Arp
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
— Herbert M. Shelton
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
— Manly P. Hall
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
— Hans F. Sennholz
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
— Dick Gregory
If my preaching of this cross is not an offense to the natural man, I am misrepresenting it.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
— H.L. Mencken
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
— Barnett Newman
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
— Thomas More
Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
— Andrew Tobias
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
— Daniel Boone
The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
— Anthony Trollope