Top 100 Philosophy Nature Quotes
#1. Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
C.S. Lewis
#2. I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.
Constance Markievicz
#3. For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.
And better, Lou thought, is a start.
Danika Stone
#4. Children are nature's flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind's adventure in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#5. When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#6. Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book - my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me - and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.
Max Ehrmann
#8. Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
Piet Hein
#10. Life is fleeting, yes, but also eternal; it will always find a way to begin again.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#11. Mortals are odd creatures in that sense - flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.
Hayden Thorne
#13. Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
Iain Pears
#14. You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward.
Debasish Mridha
#15. The great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance, and are best corrected by a little astronomy.
Bertrand Russell
#16. Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.
Tom Turner
#17. To enjoy the song of love and beauty, just get lost in the wonders of nature.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
Van Morrison
#20. Flowers teach us the philosophy of life - we should live and die beautifully.
Anna Stepanova
#21. It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing.
Alberto Caeiro
#22. Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Ayn Rand
#23. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna Hardy
#24. Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
William Blake
#25. When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.
Eraldo Banovac
#28. Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all.
Ernest Becker
#29. Look at the trees. They let go of their flowers and leaves to grow and gain back new leaves, flowers, and fruits to beautify us and the nature.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Nature is not out there; it is in your being. You came from nature.
Debasish Mridha
#31. When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well.
Charles Eisenstein
#32. Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
Baruch Spinoza
#34. Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.
Debasish Mridha
#36. He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Nature always accepts changes and never misses the opportunity to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world ...
Naoki Higashida
#40. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
#41. You are the universe, so see the beauty of nature and feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#42. In nature there is beauty, breathtaking beauty of love, joy, and happiness to fill our heart with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#43. ...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.
Immanuel Kant
#44. Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#45. The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.
Joel T. McGrath
#46. So if no theory of philosophy or the sciences can avoid including or presupposing a view of the nature of reality, then no theory can avoid including or presupposing some per se divinity belief.
Roy A. Clouser
#47. It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#48. In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.
John Marmysz
#49. Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#50. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
#51. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
John Prine
#53. The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
George Herbert
#54. To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.
Debasish Mridha
#55. If you don't have a teacher, don't worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. Wonder ... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
Adam Smith
#60. One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
Rob Shepherd
#61. Nature is powerful and beautiful,
Nature is destructive and creative,
Nature is amazing and wonderful,
Nature is loving and graceful.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.
Gary Zukav
#63. Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.
Pope John Paul II
#66. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?
Kahlil Gibran
#67. To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#69. Perception believed is reality achieved
Andy August
#70. . . . the abandonment of metaphysics involves more than the redefinition of the nature of rational inquiry in accordance with the tenets of modern scientific methodology; this redefinition itself makes matters of value and validity mere matters of opinion.
Alan White
#71. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
#72. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#73. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#74. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
Aristotle.
#75. Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
Bill Mollison
#76. Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
John Constable
#77. Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#78. For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
Lin Yutang
#79. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#80. Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice ... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.
Arnold Mindell
#82. There's no tragedy in nature, only process
and therefore no triumph, either.
Dean Koontz
#83. Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.
Martin Heidegger
#84. Flowers are the gift to us from nature, out gift to nature is our love.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Get drunk by drinking the magical beauty and tranquil tonic of nature; get lost in the wilderness.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.
George Lakoff
#89. Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Tranquil breeze
Glittering beach
Dancing water
Bluest sky
My mind flies high with joyful laughter.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed.
Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
#92. The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light.
Debasish Mridha
#93. We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death.
Debasish Mridha
#94. The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.
Thomas Cleary
#95. It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.
Abhijit Naskar
#96. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
#97. We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
John Chrysostom
#98. That everything in nature has "the appearance" of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.
Paul Greene
#99. In life, be daring, look for adventure, provide the service and love the nature.
Debasish Mridha
#100. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...
Luther Burbank
