Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
Glorieux, IV, 3, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 545. Idea in La Fontaine, Fables, Book II. 18. "Chassez les prejugés par la porte, ils rentreront par la fenêtre." As used by Frederick the Great, Letter to Voltaire (March 19, 1771).
Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
„Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.“
— Theodore Parker abolitionist 1810 - 1860
As quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) edited by Martin M. Ballou, p. 231.
Kontext: Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.
— Willie Mays Baseball player 1931
Bob Cooke: “Giants Down Reds, 6-1, Lead by 3,” The New York Herald Tribune (July 31, 1954), p. 11
„Water is the driving force in nature.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
„A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.“
— Francis of Assisi Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182 - 1226
„Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye…“
— Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
„Things go away to return, brightened for the passage“
— A.R. Ammons American poet 1926 - 2001
Quelle: Sphere: The Form of a Motion
„The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Quelle: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 216
„Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.“
— Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008
Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 93
„When some blessings come to you, do not drive them away through thanklessness.“
— Ali, buch Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
„When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.“
— Michael J. Fox Canadian-American actor 1961
„Truth can be like a large, bothersome fly – brush it away and it returns buzzing.“
— Yahia Lababidi 1973
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
„The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.“
— Paulo Coelho, buch Der Alchimist
Fatima, p. 102.
The Alchemist (1988)
Kontext: The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything... They become the Soul of the World.
„The natural cadence of our emotions are the driving force behind our poetic expressions.“
— F. S. Flint English Imagist poet 1885 - 1960
Otherworld Cadences (1920)
„I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.“
— Charles Bukowski, buch Love Is a Dog from Hell
Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell
„Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.“
— Avram Davidson novelist 1923 - 1993
Vergil in Averno (1987)
„You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
p 63
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
„You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.“
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
— Horace, buch Epistles
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
