William H. Crogman (1841–1931) American classical philologist
Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 272
“[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
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“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Part 1, Chapter 8. Compare: "La Nature a été en eux forte que l'éducation" (translated: "Nature was a stronger force in them than education"), Voltaire, Vie de Molière.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 53.
“Now to the great artist, everything in nature has character.”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Rodin on realism, 1910
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Italo Calvino The Uses of Literature
Source: The Uses of Literature
“Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.”
Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times
p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
As quoted in The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts : A Felicitous Look at Felines (1997) by Ed Lucaire
