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Nature Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and…
- What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
- Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
- Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking…
- Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
- The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is…
- Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
- The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or…
- Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of…
- The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he…
- My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
- But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
- A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
- Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
- One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent…
- Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men…
- We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very…
- Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary…
- We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle