Galileo Galilei Quote

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Mary Wortley Montagu

• Passion

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

• Desire

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Hermann von Helmholtz

• Action

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Galsworthy

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

• Politics

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Saint Augustine

• Humanity

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

• Man

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

• Man
• Action

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

• Faith

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Laura Dern