Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.

I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.

What thou art, that thou art.

What is not in nature can never be true.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?