Nature Quotes - Page 39

• Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

  Laozi

  Moving, Enlightenment, Clarity

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

  Laozi

  Lessons, Patient, Aggressive

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.32, Jain Publishing Company

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• What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

  John Stuart Mill

  Play, Giving, Made

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Graves, Womb, His Dark Materials

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

  John Milton

  Son

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.577

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Two, Age, Majesty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Escaping, Lasts

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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Worn, Plans

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Human reason is by nature architectonic.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reason, Humans, Human Reason

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.297

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• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fate, Peculiar, Answers

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Teaching, Data

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

  Henri Bergson

  Real, Order, Giving

  "An Introduction to Metaphysics".

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Science, Discovery

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• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.

  Galileo Galilei

  Mind, Want, Matter

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Reflection, Landscape, Faces

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Rags, Paper, Dry

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Liars, Hands, House

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• Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Weakness, Humans, Amiable

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.101

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• He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

  Zhuangzi

  Companion, All Things, Regard

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• Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

  Zhuangzi

  Doe, Satisfied

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• All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Visible, Bosoms

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

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• [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

  George Berkeley

  Cheer, Water, Constitution

  'Siris' (1744) para. 217.

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• The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Whales, Finest

  Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.

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• What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Rose, Thorns, Approval

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• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  Aristotle

  Art, Men, Illustration

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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