#nature

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I see visions. Anyone would." "But you don't believe in them?" Doc asked hopefully. "I don't find it a matter for belief or disbelief," the seer said. "You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks into the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself everytime that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? Don't you see visions?" "No," said Doc. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#nature #visions #beauty

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ideas #idiots #know #later #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

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. ↗

— Aristotle

#another #better #may #sure #than

Nature does nothing in vain. ↗

— Aristotle

#nature #nothing #vain

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#delight #else #loss #nature #nothing

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #like #nature #secret