Living Creatures Quotes - Page 3

• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

  John Locke

  Dog, Men, Issues

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.133

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• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  Ambrose

  Safety, Firsts, Strive

  Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.44, Aeterna Press

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• As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

  Rosa Bonheur

  Eye, Mirrors, Soul

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• One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

  Plotinus

  Principles, Creatures, Complexes

  Plotinus (1966). “Plotinus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

  Sengcan

  Mind, Different, Three

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• We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Lying, Believe, Hammocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Men, Shame, Creatures

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• The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Long, Different, Benefits

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• I am still learning, myself, but I guess I would say to be aware of what is around you. Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it. Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

  Tricia Helfer

  Hard Work, Earning It, Play

  "ORIGIN Series: Battlestar Galactica, Razor, and Suits Actor Tricia Helfer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with detail differences - they look like different drafts of the same book. In extreme cases, like a human and a beetroot, it's like the difference between Matthew and Luke's Gospel - clearly they tell the same story, but with different words. Whereas with a human and a chimp, it's like two different printings of Matthew, with a few typos in one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Two, Differences

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mean, Thinking, Worry

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

  Patanjali

  Harm, Steadfast, Feels

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• Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.

  Sarah Trimmer

  Purpose, World, Should

  Sarah Trimmer (1864). “The Robins, Or, Domestic Life Among the Birds: With Anecdotes of Other Animals”, p.78

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• Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

  Tricia Helfer

  Hard Work, Play, Be Kind

  "ORIGIN Series: Battlestar Galactica, Razor, and Suits Actor Tricia Helfer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fire, Punishment, Islam

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.27, University of Texas Press

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• [I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Animal, Compassion, Purpose

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• Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

  Roger Caras

  Hurt, Two, Magic

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• Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

  John Locke

  Children, Taught, Killing

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.53

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• I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

  Margaret Mead

  Loyalty, Laughter, Hate

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Animal, Lakes, Land

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.17, South End Press

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• Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  God, Skills, Design

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!

  Maimonides

  Men, Attention, Littles

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.287, Courier Corporation

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• Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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