#natur

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature

I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about. ↗

— John Wyndham

#funny

Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room. ↗

— Karen Chance

#fiction #humor #romance #supernatural #humor

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#human-nature #life #life

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#life

But you invite ...” “I invite a bit of military nonsense.” “That’s what I ...” “Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson.” “What lesson?” “The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pacifism #nature

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#body #personality #nature

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#sorrow #nature

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ↗

— Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

#nature

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist ↗

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#nature