Quotes About Natural Order

God has not regulated the laws of nature to meet the demands of human vanity." The Spirits' Book

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

El éxito de la ciencia es desvelar el ordenamiento profundo del mundo natural, nos da una base firme para aceptar que hay una causa aun mas profunda para dicho orden. Dios no es una explicación alternativa a la ciencia, es la base de toda explicación, en el sentido de que es la existencia de Dios la que da lugar a la posibilidad de explicación.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

La repetición eterna confiere poder al relato, pues implica que este es el devenir natural de las cosas, y que si Arjuna evita el combate o si Simba rehúsa convertirse en rey, estarán rebelándose contra las leyes mismas de la naturaleza.

A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in it. In contrast, an imagined order is always in danger of collapse, because it depends upon myths, and myths vanish once people stop believing in them.

le monde] n'a pas besoin d'être gouverné ; en fait, il ne devrait pas être gouverné

It's odd, really. Trying to impose order on nature. The garden is a living, breathing thing; sometimes I'm quite sure it's got a mind of its own.

L'hérédité a ses lois, comme la pesanteur.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nature knows no Moral Order. Nature doesn't give a fig for social conventions or ethical questions. And God cannot respond to or repair evil, because He is not there to witness it.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

However disgruntled or puzzled a social hierarchy may leave us feeling, we are apt to go along with it on the resigned assumption that it is too entrenched and must be too well founded to be questioned. We are led to believe, in other words, that communities and the principles underpinning them are, practically speaking, immutable— even, somehow, natural.

We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

In nature, the strong overpower the weak in order to improve their chances of survival. But in culture, the strong must protect the weak. That is dharma.

The most charismatic people—the poets, the mystics, the explorers—were that way because they had somehow managed to keep a bit of this light that was meant to have dimmed. But the shocking thing, the unbearable thing it seemed, was that the natural order was for this light to vanish. It hung on sometimes through the twenties, a glint here or there in the thirties, and then almost always the eyes went dark.

Everything that's organized is racing toward being disorganized. It's nature's highest law.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

It soon transpired, however, that the unicorn only approached youthful maidens, paying absolutely no attention to older ones. Being a wise creature, the unicorn indubitably knows that remaining too long in the state of maidenhood is suspicious and counter to the natural order. Physiologus

Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.