Quotes About Survival

Intuition is a function by which humans see around corners. It is useful for persons who live exposed to dangerous natural conditions. —ERASMUS Erasmus Dialogues

Adaptability is the essence of survival. —from the Azhar Book

According to a few sparse anthropological notes he had found, the Fremen were the remnants of an ancient wandering people, the Zensunni, who had been slaves dragged from world to world. After being freed, or perhaps escaping, from their captivity they had tried to find a home for centuries, but were persecuted everywhere they went. Finally, they'd gone to ground here on Arrakis—and somehow they had thrived.

Such pathetic Lives they lead, Erasmus thought, without formal education or awareness. But even the lowliest of them might possess the tremendous potential to be a great human genius. Lack of opportunities did not necessarily make an individual stupid, but only shifted his intelligence to a form suited to survival rather than creativity.

Capital, cried Basil. I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know.

Aye, she'm cutten our tails off'n us wi' a single swipe, missie!

It is not wise to be seen out in the open by hawks, if you are a dove.

You'll never take me alive! I don't want you alive, rat!

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, Avengers assemble? It's clobberin' time? Hulk smash? Nico: Try not to die.

Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.

Come back with a healthy monkey, or don't come back at all.

You remind me of my late sister, little one. As I once told her, the headstrong may win many battles... but only the strong of heart will survive the war.

You and me little buddy...adrift in an ocean of estrogen

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?

Think about that for a moment, because it's important. Where do you go to hide from the end of the world?

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Stop thinking about the fact that the world has turned against you and the irony is you shouldn't even be here. You should have died sixty years ago. They should have left you in that block of ice. They should have left you as a memory, as a symbol of peace and freedom. Instead of what they're turning you into: a war criminal. A refuregee.

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Las especies que sobreviven no son las más fuertes ni las más inteligentes, sino aquellas que se adaptan mejor al cambio

If you see you're going to get popped in a fair fight, don't fight fair.

Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening—and avoiding those situations in the future if possible—is often critical to survival.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

It's a nonsense to say that men should be Britons and Frenchmen and Russians first and communists and Christians and fascists afterwards, for it is only by making a philosophy and not a nation prevail that we shall every attain universal peace. That's why this war's decided nothing, really, because it was fought for national survival and not for philosophical penetration.

If, of course, to serial and redescription you add… how would I put it, punctual? …Or the key with which they maintain their subsistence. And in that sense serial redescription seems to be a very good definition for the social sciences as well as for philosophy. We accompany the task of the entities in their survival, so to speak, and their maintaining their subsistence in a very, very practical manner.