Natural Objects Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how…
— Anthony of Padua
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
— Edmund Husserl
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It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by…
— Frederick William Faber
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
— Edgard Varese
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Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under…
— Cennino Cennini
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
— Bernard Berenson
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what…
— Walter Pater
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The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which…
— Kazimir Malevich
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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate…
— Joseph Paxton
Who Wrote These Natural Objects Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Natural Objects Quotes as follows: