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- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,…
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
- Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions…
- ...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which…
- Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
- The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or…
- Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
- We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest…
- Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in…
- Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
- We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp…
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found…
- The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
- Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
- The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably…
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- 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