“Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.” KnowsMayRealHappensReadingLanguageNatureOppositesHastySyntaxIntricacy Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” LifeFeelsMadeHappinessNatureVirtuePossibilityGratitudeDiscoveryOppositesConvincedOddCheerGardenerSavants Author:Bertrand Russell
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” EndsReasonArtistNatureExperienceOpposites Book:Notebooks Source: Notebooks