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The Nature of Things
«Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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feeble, feebler, feeblest, reed, The Nature of Things
«There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.»
«If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.»
Author: Eleanora Duse
(Actress)
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«Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Understanding
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«In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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in all, marvelous, The Marvelous, The Nature of Things
«There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.»
«For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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«The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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