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Nature Quotes by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
- Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the…
- Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
- In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall…
- L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est,…
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