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“All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.”

Helping Truth Energy Sound Nature Realizing Rocks Divine Flower All Things Sight Smile

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“What is not in nature can never be true.”

Truth Nature Being True

Book:The Complete Romances of Voltaire

Source: The Complete Romances of Voltaire

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

Knows Inspirational Believe Truth Lying I Believe Nature Knowledge Human Nature Slave Ignorant Telling The Truth Be A Slave

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

Art Reality Truth Nature Art Is Imitation Metaphysical Conquest Supplements

Book:The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy

Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy

“Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.”

Truth Speak Language Understanding Nature Morning Sad Bird Rage Warning Scream Every Morning Lungs Rockers Lack Of Understanding Birdsong Daybreak Language Barriers Birds Chirping

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.”

World Firsts Ideas Soul Body Truth Together Lasts Spiritual Science Energy Force Nature Doubt Materials Transformation Analysis Complementary Focal Point Spiritual Energy

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”

Mind Truth Nature Subjects Degrees Mark Excellence Satisfied Educated Uncertain Precision Approximation Exactness Educated Mind

Author:Aristotle

“You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.”

May Truth Science Felt Nature Natural Objects Simplicity Spread Mathematical Aesthetic Introducing Frightening Schemes Wholeness Criteria

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.”

Mind Moments Truth Science Nature Views Plans Failing Position Simplicity Complicated Satisfied Contemplating Sublime Small Parts

Author:John Herschel