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Nature Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature…
- My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not…
- When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its…
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
- The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is…
- The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness…
- Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
- Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to…
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the…
- The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of…
- We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
- Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded…
- So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never…
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
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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