#nature

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#create #disbelief #fourth #having #i

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#activity #drawing #forth #highest #man

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conditioned #contingent #divine #divine nature #exist

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#alone #determined #exists #free #itself

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gift #habit #i #i am #looking

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#air #beauty #changes #claim #forest