Quotes on Nature

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.

I have, by nature, an analytical mind.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.