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Nature Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
- Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding…
- Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or…
- Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must…
- Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
- Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
- In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
- Art is man added to Nature.
- Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if…
- There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
- The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
- It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times…
- Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of…
- The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion…
- Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with…
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