
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Quae bene cognita si teneas, natura videtur
Libera continuo, dominis privata superbis,
ipsa sua per se sponte omnia dis agere expers.
Book II, lines 1090–1092 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Quae bene cognita si teneas, natura videtur
Libera continuo, dominis privata superbis,
ipsa sua per se sponte omnia dis agere expers.
Book II, lines 1090–1092 (tr. Munro)
Professor Chan Heng Chee, Singapore Ambassador to the United States.
Source: Art, 1912, Preface, p. 7-8
Context: Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Book III, Ch. 2
Attributed
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 127
The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700