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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
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NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...
Pensees (1669) -
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Pensees (1669) -
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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Nature is not our mother, Nature is our sister.
The Eternal Revolution -
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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