9 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Nature

George Bernard Shaw quotes on nature

42. My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God- nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

44. Again, there is the illusion of 'increased command over Nature,' meaning that cotton is cheap and that ten miles of country road on a bicycle have replaced four on foot. But even if man's increased command over Nature included any increased command over himself (the only sort of command relevant to his evolution into a higher being), the fact remains that it is only by running away from the increased command over Nature to country places where Nature is still in primitive command over Man that he can recover from the effects of the smoke, the stench, the foul air, the overcrowding, the racket, the ugliness, the dirt which the cheap cotton costs us.

58. Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are:

83. And a pretty kettle of fish they make of it between them. Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast. One splendid body is worth the brains of a hundred dyspeptic, flatulent philosophers.

125. Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

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148. Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

156. I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.

227. The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature.

228. The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand.