#nature

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#child #does #god #greatness #his

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ↗

— Paracelsus

#comes #healing #mind #must #nature

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature. ↗

— Richard Owen

#every #every step #inquiries #man #nature

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#art #before #custom #law #nature

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#art #assault #feminism #imagination #moment

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. ↗

— Paracelsus

#account #basis #distress #everything #his

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. ↗

— Paracelsus

#bean #fig #forges #gold #man

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. ↗

— Paracelsus

#attacks #because #body #common #death

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #nature #only #symbol #uniqueness

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows