Quotes for: nature

Quotes for: nature

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

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

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Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Nature is always too strong for principle.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei

How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.
Victor Hugo

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle

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People must help one another it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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Reason misleads us more often than nature.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde

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Art is the transition from nature to education, and from education to nature.
Friedrich Hölderlin

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius

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Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature does not make jumps.
Gottfried Leibniz

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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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

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature