Quotes About Survival

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by remaining precariously generalized that an organism can advance towards that rational intelligence which is its compensation for not having a body and instincts perfectly adapted to one particular kind of environment.

He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were destined to be eternal. Bus his memory survived, even though he never deliberately made use of it; and though the things which had been Isabels were destoryed, he could not guard against chance reminders. Chance had found many gaps in his defenses this morning.

Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this Particular planet.

Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.

Incidental, m-am aflat ÅŸi eu în prim?var? foarte aproape de judecata final?. De fapt, nici nu aÅŸ mai fi aici dac? n-ar fi existat penicilina. Pneumonia, prietena b?trâneÅ£ii. Ast?zi medicina te învie ca s? poÅ£i tr?i bucurându-te de arterioscleroz? sau de cancerul prostatei. AÅŸa c?, precum vezi, totul este cu des?vârÅŸire postum. Cu excepÅ£ia mea, sunt morÅ£i cu toÅ£ii iar eu tr?iesc din timp împrumutat.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

De qué sirven la verdad, la belleza o el conocimiento cuando las bombas de ántrax llueven del cielo?

Thanks to the realistic ideas handed down by culture, mankind has survived and, in certain fields, progresses. But thanks to the pernicious nonsense drummed into every individual in the course of his acculturation, mankind, though surviving and progressing, has always been in trouble. History is the record, among other things, of the fantastic and generally fiendish tricks played upon itself by culture-maddened humanity. And the hideous game goes on.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness—to be aware of it and yet to remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning.

ObiÈ™nuinÈ›a naÈ™te dispreÈ›, iar supravieÈ›uirea pretinde nu atât gesturi imperioase, cât mai degrab? lente, plicticoase È™i chinuitoare. Lumea din afar? este ceea ce ne întâmpin? la trezire, în fiecare diminea?? a vieÈ›ii noastre, nu-i aÈ™a? Locul în care, vrând-nevrând, trebuie s? încerc?m s? obÈ›inem cele necesare traiului. În lumea interioar? nu exist? nici munc?, nici monotonie.

The lizards died of having too much body and too little head,' said Rampion in explanation.'so at least the scientists are never tired of telling us. Physical size is a handicap after a certain point. But what about mental size? These fools seem to forget that they're just as top-heavy and clumsy and disproportioned as any diplodocus. Sacrificing physical life and affective life to mental life. What do they imagine's going to happen?

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this Particular planet.

Free as a bird', we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

Probably (for we are not yet certain) it interferes with the enzyme system that regulates cerebral functioning. By doing so it lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life on the surface of our planet. This lowering of what may be called the biological efficiency of the brain seems to permit the entry into consciousness of certain classes of mental events, which are normally excluded, because they possess no survival value.

Es preciso haber querido morir, Maximiliano, para saber cuán bueno es vivir

People, these strange animals who walk on their rear paws and are naturally naked, so they have to wear other animal's skins to keep warm, are ridiculously clumsy and helpless.

Dire la mer. Parce que c'est tout ce qu'il nous reste. Parce que devant elle, nous sans croix ni vieil homme ni magie, il nous faut bien avoir une arme, quelque chose, pour ne pas mourir dans le silence et c'est tout.

Estás a punto de desvanecerte, y entonces yo me digo tienes que pensar en algo, tienes que mantenerte aferrada a un pensamiento, si consigo hacerme pequeña en ese pensamiento después todo pasará, sólo hay que resistir, pero lo cierto es que…, eso es de verdad el horror…, lo cierto es que ya no hay pensamientos, en ninguna parte en tu interior, ya no queda ni un pensamiento sino sólo sensaciones.

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than... I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits I nearly drowned!

I'm fine. I have bad dreams but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

Playboy: Do you ever wonder how you have survived this long? Thompson: Yes. Nobody expected me to get much past 20. Least of all me. I just assume, "Well, I got through today, but tomorrow might be different." This is a very weird and twisted world; you can't afford to get careless; don't fuck around. You want to keep your affairs in order at all times.

Yeah, like that old Chinese curse about living in interesting times. Interesting times meant the barbarians were about to ride over your fields and kill you and your family.

Special things have a way of surviving.