Creatures Quotes
Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.
The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.
All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.
The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.
Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.
All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
