#nature

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. ↗

— Bronislaw Malinowski

#find #forge #life #may #monastery

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#another #areas #colour #lines #nature

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ↗

— Barry Mann

#competitive #how #into #nature #negative

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#laws #love #manifestations #me #nature

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#also #beginning #centuries #century #determine

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. ↗

— Franz Marc

#behind #hidden #inner #look #nature

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence