NATURE in Classic Quotes

1  It must be a case of the laws of nature again.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: V

2  It is the law of nature for all decent people all over the earth.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

3  And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: II

4  And it was not from any interested motive that they grovelled, but simply because he had been favoured by the gifts of nature.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III

5  For that one could not blame even the laws of nature, though the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: V

6  Consequently we have only to discover these laws of nature, and man will no longer have to answer for his actions and life will become exceedingly easy for him.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VII

7  With good reason Mr. Anaevsky testifies of it that some say that it is the work of man's hands, while others maintain that it has been created by nature herself.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

8  I know, anyway, that I will not be put off with a compromise, with a recurring zero, simply because it is consistent with the laws of nature and actually exists.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X

9  Well, such a direct person I regard as the real normal man, as his tender mother nature wished to see him when she graciously brought him into being on the earth.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: III

10  Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

11  But yet you are fully convinced that he will be sure to learn when he gets rid of certain old bad habits, and when common sense and science have completely re-educated human nature and turned it in a normal direction.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VII

12  The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational habits of my generation.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X

13  Those moans express in the first place all the aimlessness of your pain, which is so humiliating to your consciousness; the whole legal system of nature on which you spit disdainfully, of course, but from which you suffer all the same while she does not.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IV

14  You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

15  And, in fact, we ought unwearyingly to repeat to ourselves that at such and such a time and in such and such circumstances nature does not ask our leave; that we have got to take her as she is and not fashion her to suit our fancy, and if we really aspire to formulas and tables of rules, and well, even.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

16  I should certainly have never been able to do anything from being magnanimous--neither to forgive, for my assailant would perhaps have slapped me from the laws of nature, and one cannot forgive the laws of nature; nor to forget, for even if it were owing to the laws of nature, it is insulting all the same.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: II

17  It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII