Quotes About Inanimate

Finally, communication seems to work wonders during a trip alone. Some sailors find ways to talk to inanimate objects assign them a personality and make them members of the crew. It is a great way to cope with loneliness and express your emotions.

One of the great lessons of 200 years of American boom is that technology is never neutral. Things come with demands, they have needs and they exploit the environments they find themselves in. America invented technopomorphism, the imbuing of functional tools with sapient attributes. There is no such thing as an inanimate object, they are just resting.

We were seeking an answer to the strange fact that a mushroom, one single species, the pucka, was 'animate' in their language, was 'endowed with a soul', like all animals and human beings, but unlike all other vegetation, which is construed grammatically as 'inanimate', as 'without a soul'.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships with the rest of the animate and inanimate world are still given due place.

reacted to that just the way a stuffed fish reacts to cut bait.

Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

Destination is a primordial intention born in the mind of the creator that promoted him to create a certain object of inanimate nature, animate nature and the highest creature, a human being

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

There is no struggle here: life is a circuitous route to death, and conservative instincts are the pavement of this route, they are one with it, indistinguishable from it. They don't "want" anything, they don't "struggle" with death, they simply do their job of making this particular circuitous path to the inanimate operative. Strictly speaking, they work at maintaining this path, and not simply at "maintaining life.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

It was a large cardboard letter-file, old and faded but intact. I passed it to Wolfe, and he opened it with the deliberate and friendly exactness which his hands displayed towards all inanimate things.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

We think now that love is a kind of giving of attention. It is usually attention given to some other consciousness, but not always; the attention can be to something unconscious, even inanimate. But the attention seems often to be called out by a fellow consciousness. Something about it compels attention, and rewards attention. That attention is what we call love.

All the same, the doll, like all dolls, cannot even be called dead, as it was never alive.

He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.

Stars, rocks and rivers are not sentient. They move, but do not act. They do not seek opportunities or avoid threats. They do not feel or think. If they do, we do not know, as they cannot express themselves, or at least we cannot fathom their responses. They do not seem to experience death, as they do not demonstrate any struggle for life. Even

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's been shrink-wrapped.

there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.