"People travel to marvel at the mountains,..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
More by Saint Augustine
“I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.”
“Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.”
“It is a sin to judge any man by his post”
More on Self
“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
“Humor is my default mode.”
“In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.”
More on Nature
“The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
“The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.”