"To respect the cat is the beginning of…" — Erasmus Darwin
"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense."
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25 Quotes by Erasmus Darwin
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time…
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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of…
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize;…
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A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
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Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!'…
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The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them.…
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on…
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In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why…
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More Aesthetic Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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