Quotes about Philosophy
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
— Confucius
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
— Confucius
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
— CS Lewis
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
— Ronald Reagan
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
— William Wordsworth
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
— Henry David Thoreau
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Cicero