Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep free from public surveillance, that's natural. Its shouldn't be but, its very natural.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

To be of few words is natural.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.