"It is very odd that Nature should be……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . ."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
— Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
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Nature does nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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