"The light of the day is followed..." - Quote by Aristotle
The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.
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“Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.”
“In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.”
“Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.”
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“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”
“Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?”
“I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.”
More on Time
“What Time Is It? You Mean Now?”
“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”
“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”