Nature & World Sayings

Keep your mind pure, like the lotus in the water, untouched by its impurities.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

There are no species in nature, only individuals.

Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

I have often thought, that if I were to choose a food to eat, it should be bread and water.

To attribute the motion of the earth to the sun is as absurd as to attribute the motion of the sun to the earth.

Indeed, nature is full of infinite reasons that have never been in experience.

A full belly makes a dull brain.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

The most beautiful flowers are often found in the most obscure places.

The new star in Cassiopeia has confounded all the philosophers.

Nature is not a goddess, but a machine.

I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

I will open a window to Europe.

Let the rivers run red with their blood!

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Let us cultivate our garden.