nature Quotes

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of... ...

Some animals are clever and mean, like the fox; others, like the dog, are fierce but also friendly and affectionate. Some are gentle and easy to train, like the elephant; some feel shy and are watchful, like the goose. Some... ...

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.