Quotes About Existence

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Hidden nature is secret God.

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.