Nature To Be Commanded Quotes

#1. Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Francis Bacon

#2. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Henry Adams

#3. If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.

David Hume

#4. He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

Francis Bacon

#6. Everyone dies. The choice and the challenge are in how we chose to live. And the more meaning you find in your life, the more reason you have to live.

Jeffrey W. Comment

#7. In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Honore De Balzac

#8. Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art - whatever - knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.

John Lamb Lash

#9. My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

John Clare

#10. The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Beryl Smalley

#11. I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

Edward Everett Hale

#12. I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window."
"Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for having company in our old age and for ensuring that we have heirs to follow us.

Colleen McCullough

#13. The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

John Hodgman

#14. Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#15. I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

Tyler Perry

#16. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.

Karen Witemeyer

#17. I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.

Joe Perry

#18. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Ron White

#19. The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is "flight." That's the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from things that frighten us. And fear becomes sinful when it causes us to run away from the things God has commanded us to do. In

Wayne A. Mack

#20. When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

Stephen Richards

#21. A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

Prince

#22. HISTORY IS the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.

Leo Tolstoy