Alphabet Quote by Loren Eiseley

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

— Knut Hamsun

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

— Michel Foucault

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

— Diogenes Laertius

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of…

— Samuel

“He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns…

— Plotinus

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

— Edmund Burke

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson