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Nature Quotes by Julian Barnes
- In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work…
- The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.…
- ...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life…
- Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it…
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