80 Quotes About Nature-of-man

Daily walk in nature brings tranquility to one’s life.

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men.

[C]ulture, for all its importance, is not some miasma that seeps into people through their skin. Culture relies on neural circuitry that accomplishes the feat we call learning. Those circuits do not make us indiscriminate mimics but have to work in surprisingly subtle ways to make the transmission of culture possible. That is why it is not an alternative to a focus on learning, culture and socialization, but rather an attempt to explain how they work.

Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you.

Sorry. But as Mother Nature willed, you are. If born a man, so you are. If a woman, so be it. Interchanging of genders is your will, not the Divine Will. Tomorrow you may feel like being a cuckoo, will you so become? But you're welcome to your will. As is every cuckoo.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

A man conscious of his pain is more real than a man who is unconscious of his happiness thus exhibiting his unreal nature.” 

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the actual reality! Our preference of technology over nature proves that Man is experiencing everything through the HEAD. What a pity!”