Quote of Auguste Rodin - There are unknown forces in nature...

Biography - Auguste Rodin:

French sculptor.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1917
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Auguste Rodin

Quotes about nature:

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon /

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires /

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

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Quotes for: to understand

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections /

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

André Gide /

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Phillips Feynman /

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi /

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Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus /

Hide your life and spread your spirit.

Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres /

There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Paul Valéry /

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

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Auguste Rodin also said...

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

Auguste Rodin

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Auguste Rodin

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

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