#nature

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#antithesis #bear #being #between #ethics

When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game. ↗

— Stanley Shapiro

#between #fair #fair game #game #girl

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#compassion #embrace #free #nature #beauty

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#art #nature #architecture

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just ↗

— Michela Wrong

#inquisition #middle-ages #religion #age

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #due #effect #exercise #final

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#best #education #film #film set #human

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. ↗

— Pink

#bend #break #elements #favorite #flexible

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates