Ideas Quote by Raymond Williams

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature.…

— Erich Fromm

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

— Franz Oppenheimer

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

— Mary Butts

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

— Victor Hugo

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

— Mason Cooley

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

— Camille Paglia

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of…

— Murray Rothbard