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Nature Quotes by John Dewey
- Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to…
- Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
- We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and…
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
- Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to…
- The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
- Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant…
- Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and…
- Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and…
- Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
- Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
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