"In all things of nature there is..." - Quote by Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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“So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.”
“Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.”
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.”
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“A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.”
“Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.”
More on Wonder
“Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.”
“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”
“The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!”