Emile Boutroux Quotes on Nature
Emile Boutroux was a French philosopher whose work in the philosophy of science and religion shaped a generation of French and American thinkers, including his student Henri Bergson. This page collects quotes attributed to Emile Boutroux on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Emile Boutroux:
“Necessity in nature is not absolute; the laws of nature have a contingent character.”
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Attributed to Emile Boutroux:
“Every level of nature has its own kind of law.”
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Attributed to Emile Boutroux:
“Liberty is a real principle in nature.”
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“Mysticism consists, according to a beautiful definition I find in Plotinus ], in seeing with closed eyes [...] in seeing with the eyes of the soul , while the eyes of the body are closed. The essential phenomenon of mysticism is what is called ecstasy , a state in which, with all communication with the external world interrupted, the soul has the sense of communicating with an internal object, which is the infinite being, God. ( La psicologia del misticismo , pp. 58-59)”
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