We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people’s emotional nature.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.