#natur

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #false #love #mind #must

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#body #calls #cast #dimension #else

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#always #artificially #case #cells #constructing

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. ↗

— James Payn

#choosing #course #guide #matter #nature

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#century #certainly #creator #debates #emphasis

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#circumstances #inner #man #nature #never

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#care #coming #communicated #conviction #felt

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anything #battery #care #ethanol #gas