Culture Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Customs Done Inspirational Nature Sensible Tradition
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Because humanity is part of nature, it should be no surprise that people act consistently with natural law. But for most of us, this… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet. — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
