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- Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things…
- Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
- O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and…
- There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
- Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot…
- One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
- The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the…
- This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in…
- The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
- King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help…
- Nature alone is the master of true genius.
- Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law…
- Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
- Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
- Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
- Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
- The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the…
- Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
- Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it…
- A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
- Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
- The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence…
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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