Quotes About Species

Sexul, conform naturii lui, nu era definit de un singur organism individual, ci de acela al speciei. Individul, dup? terminarea actului, nu poate decît s? se întoarc? la propriul s?u eu. Numai oamenii fericiÅ£i se întorc la mulÅ£umire. Cei care au fost triÅŸti se-ntorc la disperare. Cei care erau pe moarte, se-ntorc la patul lor de moarte.

We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus points for those who get all the way to insects.

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang.

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

it is the universal class because its sufferings are universal. He thus defined the proletariat in the first instance not as the body of factory workers but as the metaphysical demiurge destined to liberate the species from social inequality: it was as the victim class that it became the redeemer class, the class to end all classes.

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.