#nature

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beauty #else #everything #isolated #leads

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

#causes #chance #compulsions #desire #habit

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #end #end of the world

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#existing #form #government #highest #highest form

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#kind #law #man #more #nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commanded #must #obeyed

The skull is nature's sculpture. ↗

— David Bailey

#sculpture #skull

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#enchantment #family #fascinates #fiery #gives

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes