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  • Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

    Law   Musical   Training  
  • Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

    Law   Hearing   Natural  
    Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
  • It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

  • What's unique for me, as an actor, is this idea that I don't have to be grounded to the natural law of things. I can pull things out of the air and communicate with other spirits and other elements in other languages or forms, but I'm still right here, on the earth. That's a lot of fun.

    Fun   Unique   Earth  
    "Jonathan Tucker on the "Tragic" 'Kingdom' Series Finale & Returning for 'American Gods' Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2017.
  • Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

    Law   Giving   Slavery  
    Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.36
  • The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

    Liars   Artist   Law  
    John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”
  • Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

    Love   Faith   God  
    Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

    Law   Community   Care  
    St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.995, Cosimo, Inc.
  • A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

    Tim O'Brien (2009). “Going After Cacciato”, p.242, Broadway Books
  • Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

    "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.
  • The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

    William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.129, Xist Publishing
  • Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

    Law   Choices   Leader  
  • The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

    Science   Law   Problem  
    Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

    Simple   Law   Actors  
    Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.246, A&C Black
  • For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

    Teamwork   Honesty   Law  
    David Brin (2012). “Existence”, p.340, Macmillan
  • According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

    "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 37), 1968.
  • There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

    "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.
  • Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

    Ambition   Law   Miracle  
    Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.11, Penguin
  • Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

    Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
  • I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.

    Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub
  • Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

    Emotional   Law   Space  
    Letter to August Derleth (21 November 1930), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 220), 1971.
  • What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

    "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.
  • The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

    Prayer   Law   Space  
    Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.112, Zondervan
  • I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

    "True Detective". TV Series, www.npr.org. 2014.
  • The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

  • There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  • ... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

    Real   Years   Law  
  • It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

    Law   Giving   Action  
  • The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.

    Country   Confused   Men  
    William Stanley Jevons (1965). “Elementary lessons in logic”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

    Men   Law   Feelings  
    Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”
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