Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.