
“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”
p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Context: Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but, under nature, everything belongs to all — that is, they have authority to claim it for themselves. But, under dominion, where it is by common law determined what belongs to this man, and what to that, he is called just who has a constant will to render to every man his own, but he, unjust who strives, on the contrary, to make his own that which belongs to another.
“[Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.”
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,” said Grumman. “We have to learn everything we do.”
Stanislaus Grumman to Lee Scoresby in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
“Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be”
Book I, 1099b.22: Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:8.
Nicomachean Ethics
Context: Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
“As in everything, nature is the best instructor.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
As quoted in Catholic Morality : Selected Sayings and Some Account of Various Religions (1915) by E Comyns Durnford, p. 90.
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