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Nature Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
- The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour…
- As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular…
- Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
- When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has…
- Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act…
- If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one.…
- History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
- The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when…
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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
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- 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