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“The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.”

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Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.”

Needs Believe Light Earth Used Night Given Nature Masters Illusion Terror Domain Primal Good Night Night Light

Book:Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

Source: Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.”

Mind Looks Real Soul Reason Eye Purpose Order Nature Existence Meditation Objects Masters Buddhism Discipline Ordinary Fundamentals Insight Opening Zen Buddhism Dhyana

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

World Mean Art Artist Goal Nature Subjects This World Masters Higher Understood Slave Subservient Higher Goals

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”

Men Science Force Understanding Nature Technology Magic Atheism Masters Casts Spells Skepticism

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”

Men Wisdom Force Understanding Nature Masters Skepticism Forces Of Nature Man And Nature Understanding Nature

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.”

Kind Use Night Next Easy Nature Masters Devil Stamps Refrain Wondrous Abstinence Potency Easiness Hamlet Love

Book:The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

Source: The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

“Choose only one master - Nature.”

Art Choices Nature Painting Masters Painter Famous Artist One With Nature Nature's Beauty Nature And Art

Author:Rembrandt

“What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.”

Knows Life Spirit Religion Spirituality Nature Fields Divine Masters Holy Woods Scripture Oaks Holy Scriptures

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.”

Mind Nature Principles Masters Consequence Roots Fruit Branches Thrown Grain Good Mind

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Life Home Might Lasts Desire Culture House Strong Nature Study Masters Garden Simplicity Moderates Convenience Covetousness

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley

“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.”

Source: Critique of pure reason

“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.”

Nature Talent Masters Genius Talent And Genius

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”