Blacklock Nature

Famous quotes containing the words blacklock and/or nature:

    The wise in every age conclude,
    What Pyrrho taught and Hume renewed,
    That dogmatists are fools.
    —Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791)

    It was his nature to suppose,
    To receive what others had supposed, without
    Accepting. He received what he denied.
    But as truth to be accepted, he supposed
    A truth beyond all truths.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)