Intelligent Quotes

“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”

“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.”

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”

“Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it.”

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.”

“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”