Montesquieu: La connaissance de la nature et des passions

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„Sophocle, Euripide, Eschyle, ont d’abord porté le genre d’invention au point que nous n’avons rien changé depuis aux règles qu’ils nous ont laissées, ce qu’ils n’ont pu faire sans une connaissance parfaite de la nature et des passions.“ (Chap. 2) #Montesquieu #nature #passions

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Emerson: Nature

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„There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts.“ (p. 300) #Emerson #nature

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Emerson: Nature

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„Nature looks provokingly stable and secular, but it has a cause like all the rest“. (p. 301) #Emerson #nature

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Bacon: The Magician

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„Those who become practically versed in nature are, the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician, but all (as matters now stand) with faint efforts and meagre success.“ (p. 15) #FrancisBacon #nature #magician

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