There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Nature Actions have consequences

Author

Robert G. Ingersoll

Source

Some Reasons Why

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Writer

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United States

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Topic
Forgetfulness

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 217.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 217.

Another quote about Nature

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

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Topic
Man and nature Spending time in nature Nature

Author

William Blake
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1807 1810s 19th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. The Notebook of William Blake. c. 1811.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.