Edwin A. Abbott Quotes

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

Edwin A. Abbott

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• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Man

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Girl

• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • Nature
  • Better
  • Now

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Stop
  • Anger

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • May
  • Nature
  • Soul

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Nature
  • Hope

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Nature

• Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of there substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may ever be new.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Nature

• I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Nature
  • Charge
  • Recluse

• 'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Done

• All rappers exaggerate.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Rappers
  • Exaggerate

• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Equality
  • Behavior

• Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Nature
  • Regularity
  • Conformation