Quotes with organism

  • The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

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  • A.R. Orage The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
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  • Samuel Butler All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Aldous Huxley At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barry Schuler By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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  • Georg Groddeck Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.
    Georg Groddeck
    German physician, founder of psychosomatics (1866 - 1934)
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  • William James If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Edward O. Wilson In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
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  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • George Eliot It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ezra Pound Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Boris Sidis The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Simone Weil In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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