"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves." ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau Topic(s): Nature More From Jean-Jacques Rousseau "O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it." "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." More In Nature "Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."― David Gerrold "I think it’s a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you’ll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before."― Cass Sunstein "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."― Reinhold Niebuhr