Connections Quote by Albert Einstein

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

— Francis Bacon

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

— Frithjof Schuon

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is…

— William Hazlitt

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest;…

— Edmund Burke

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Even in this world, more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings…

— Immanuel Kant

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

— Alexander von Humboldt

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

— Francis Bacon