Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Anne Conway
Anne Conway (philosopher) Quotes
1 Sourced Quote
Source
Report...
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.
Anne Conway
Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anne Conway
Born:
December 14, 1631
Died:
February 18, 1679
(aged 47)
Bio:
Anne Conway was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Leibniz.
Known for:
The Conway letters
Instant People Reading Through Handwriting
Anne Conway on Wikipedia
Anne Conway works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
British Philosopher Quotes
Philosopher Quotes
17th-century Philosopher Quotes
17th-century Women
Women Philosophers
Related People
Walter Raleigh
English Explorer
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes