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Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. -- Mason Cooley
To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man". -- U.G. Krishnamurti
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. -- William Osler
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. -- George Gillespie
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. -- Johann Arndt
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Poverty is not natural; it is man-made -- Nelson Mandela
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. -- Norman Mailer
You make me feel like a natural man -- Carole King
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation. -- Dagobert D. Runes
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource. -- Karl Brandt
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A politician is a man in his natural state -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure. -- Charles Baudelaire
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It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target. -- Demetri Martin
Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. -- Shana Alexander
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. -- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth. -- Blaise Pascal
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. -- William Osler
God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man -- Leopold Kronecker
Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior. -- Miyamoto Musashi
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. -- Anthony Trollope
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind. -- Bob Marley
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. -- James Thomson
I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny. -- Henry Ford
Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction. -- Ray Davies
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. -- Ivan Pavlov
Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. -- George H. Smith
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. -- Thomas Jefferson
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. -- Samuel Johnson
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. -- Manly Hall
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. -- Mark Twain
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. -- Hans F. Sennholz
He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal -- Loretta Chase
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. -- Jonathan Edwards
Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself. -- R. C. Sproul
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. -- George Santayana
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. -- Federico Fellini
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. -- Hans Arp
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. -- George Santayana
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. -- Nancy Gibbs
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. -- Bertrand Russell
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. -- Thomas Aquinas
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person. -- Pope John Paul II
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top. -- William Henry Drummond
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism. -- Charlie LeDuff
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. -- Lotte Hass
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. -- Thomas Brooks
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind -- George Gaylord Simpson
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. -- Zhuangzi
We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. -- Roy Spencer
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it. -- James Freeman Clarke
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things -- G.K. Chesterton
The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, -- Bernie Krause
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. -- Daniel Boone
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it. -- Henry David Thoreau
I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. -- Franz Oppenheimer
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. -- Ben Shahn
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. -- Blaise Pascal
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. -- George Mason
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. -- H. L. Mencken
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural. -- George Kukla
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. -- Thomas Hobbes
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. -- Ernest Becker
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. -- E. F. Schumacher
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. -- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. -- Barnett Newman
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. -- William Minto
when god did something it become Natural Disaster. when man did the same thing it become TERRORISM! Where is consistency Bitch! -- Vishal Singh
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him. -- Emma Curtis Hopkins
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man. -- J. I. Packer
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. -- George Santayana
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. -- Steven Solomon
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. -- William Hazlitt
Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures. -- Clive Sinclair
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. -- Woodrow Wilson
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. -- Joseph Conrad
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man. -- Paul Verhoeven
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. -- George Mason
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. -- William Wordsworth
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want. -- David Daiches
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself. -- Charles Spurgeon
Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal. -- Sue Merrell
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. -- Virginia Woolf
I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions. -- Todd Young
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence. -- Henry David Thoreau
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe. -- Allan Bloom
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace. -- Thomas Boston

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