"Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education."
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"What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place."
"Sadness isn't a natural response."
"Joy is a natural way of being."
"What's happening in the world is a natural course of events."
"For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate."
"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."
"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."
"I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it."
"Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?"
"Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots."
"It is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home."
"There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character."
"All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion."
"There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other."
"It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk."
"All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it."
"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."
"What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on."