#ture

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost. If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#humankind #inspirational #poetry #profound #understanding

They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#etiquette #matteo #speaking #nature

The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry. ↗

— Frank Huguenard

#knowledge #science #nature

A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#nature

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car. ↗

— Ed Abbey

#close #life #looking #nature #noticing

Imagina que has aceptado la muerte, como algo inevitable.Desde pequeños sabemos que la muerte existe, que todos morimos algún día, pero no lo aceptas, no del todo. Piensas que la muerte es algo que sólo les pasa a los demás, que es algo perdido en un tiempo muy lejano, donde aún no has llegado, y donde nunca llegarás. Cumplir sesenta años te hace pensar en la muerte. En que, tal vez, el momento no esté tan lejos como esperabas. Una muerte rápida y natural, pero muerte a fin de cuentas. Y te da miedo pensar en ello. ↗

— Francisco Miguel Espinoza

#nature

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#nature

Any Christianity that rests upon a dichotomy - some sort of platonic concept - simply does not have an answer to nature, and we must say with tears that much orthodoxy, much evangelical Christianity, is rooted in a platonic concept, wherein the only interest is in the "upper story", in the heavenly things - only in "saving the soul" and getting it to heaven. In this platonic concept, even though orthodox and evangelical terminology is used, there is little or no interest in the proper pleasures of the body or the proper uses of the intellect. In such a Christianity there is a strong tendency to see nothing in nature beyond its use as one of the classic proofs of God's existence. "Look at nature," we are told; "Look at the Alps. God must have made them." And that is the end. Nature has become merely an academic proof of the existence of the Creator, with little value in itself. Christians of this outlook do not show an interest in nature itself. They use it simply as an apologetic weapon, rather than thinking or talking about the real value of nature. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#nature

Cómo besa… Cómo decirlo…, ¡no sé cómo decirlo! Un beso lo es todo. Un beso es la verdad. Sin demasiados ejercicios de estilo, sin retorcimientos extremos, sin enroscamientos funambulísticos. Natural, lo más bonito. Besa como a mi me gusta. Sin tener que representarse, sin tener que reafirmarse, sencillo. Seguro, suave, tranquilo, sin prisa, con diversión, sin técnica, con sabor. ¿Puedo? ¡Con amor! ¡Dios mío! No, eso no. ¡Vete a la mierda, Step! ↗

— Federico Moccia

#beso #gin #tengo-ganas-de-ti #nature

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#historic-future #natural #origins #nature