Four Elements Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that…
— George Wald
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become…
— Empedocles
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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them…
— Maimonides
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and…
— Pema Chodron
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Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters,…
— Dogen
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to…
— Antonio Tabucchi
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Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In…
— Al-Ghazali
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The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology
— Stephen Arroyo
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Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
— Will Durant
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Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
— Tom Robbins
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen,…
— Asa Gray
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Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.
— Susan Sontag
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But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like…
— Bodhidharma
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
— Pablo Picasso
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a…
— Laura Esquivel
Who Wrote These Four Elements Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Four Elements Quotes as follows: