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Living Things Quotes (page 2)

I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses? that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things. Pablo Neruda
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can..."
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets... Umberto Eco
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.(Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005) Steven Pinker
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its... Evelyn Underhill
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product. Peter Gabriel
Herbert Spencer quote: "A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the..."
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. Herbert Spencer
Rudy Rucker quote: "All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do..."
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. Rudy Rucker
Frank Auerbach quote: "I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in..."
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. Frank Auerbach
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way. Gillian Anderson
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come. Philip K. Dick
all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. Orson Scott Card
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind,..."
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. Robert A. Heinlein
Carl Sagan quote: "The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it,..."
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Carl Sagan
The following evening as they rode up onto the western rim they lost one of the mules. It went skittering off down the canyon wall with the contents of the panniers exploding soundlessly in the hot dry air and it fell through sunlight and through shade, turning in that lonely void until it fell from sight into a sink of cold blue space that absolved it forever of memory in the mind of any living thing that was. Cormac McCarthy

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