History Quote by Terry Nardin

“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

— Thom Mayne

“Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations,…

— Herman Bavinck

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the…

— Huangbo Xiyun

“Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.”

— Gian Kumar

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

“Physical reality cannot account for its own existence for the simple reason that nature—the physical—is that which by definition already exists; existence, even taken…

— David Bentley Hart

“Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.”

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And…

— Beau Lotto

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing…

— Robert M. Pirsig