#natur

Die gesamte den Sinnen wahrnehmbare Welt ist gewissermaßen ein von Gottes Finger geschriebenes Buch, d. h. sie ist geschaffen durch göttliche Kraft, und die einzelnen Geschöpfe sind gewissermaßen Schriftzeichen, nicht nach menschlichem Belieben erfundene, sondern durch göttlichen Entscheid festgelegte, um die Weisheit Gottes im Bereich der unsichtbaren Dinge zu offenbaren. ↗

— Hugo v. St. Viktor

#buch-der-natur #ding #gott #mittelalterliche-semiotik #schriftzeichen

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What? ↗

— David Mitchell

#daughter #father #growing-up #human-nature #identity

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds. ↗

— David Mitchell

#nature #sun #water #waves #nature

He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#nature

The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of. ↗

— Valerie Martin

#nature

Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers. ↗

— Leslie McFarlane

#politics #nature

O talento natural é como a força de um atleta. Pode-se nascer com mais ou menos faculdades, mas ninguém consegue ser um atleta simplesmente por ter nascido alto ou forte ou rápido. O que faz um atleta, ou um artista é o trabalho , o ofício e a técnica. A inteligência com que se nasce é simplesmente a munição. Para se chegar a fazer alguma coisa com ela é necessário transformarmos a nossa mente numa arma de precisão. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#nature

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally different relation to it. At first, to be sure, the question of truth seems to apply only to particular parts and not to the whole of reality. Within this whole different strata of validity begin to be marked off, reality seems to separate sharply from appearance. But it lies in the very nature of the problem of truth that once it arises it never comes to rest. The concept of truth conceals an immanent dialectic that drives it inexorably forward, forever extending its limits. ↗

— Ernst Cassirer

#knowledge #problem-of-truth #reality #reflection #trust

We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges. ↗

— Kate Elliott

#politics #nature

Just as certain seeds require a forest fire to crack open their shells, crisis burns away our limited self-concepts, allowing our deeper nature to come forth. We must remember that our suffering carries the seed of our salvation; our problems are actually our answered prayers, and our darkness really is the light in potential. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #nature