#nat

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#clothes #international #jet #much #red

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature #beauty

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. ↗

— George William Curtis

#makes #men #nature #win #woman

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#imagination #psychology #dreams

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. ↗

— John Berger

#chosen #emigration #experience #forced #frontiers

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#beliefs #between #broad #broad range #change