The heart is the perfection of the whole organism…

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought…

— Aristotle

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there…

— Aristotle

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation,…

— Deepak Chopra

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more…

— John Spiers

I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical…

— Wolfgang Paul

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on…

— E. O. Wilson

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our…

— Michel Foucault

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in…

— Joseph Beuys

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and…

— Robert Koch

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating…

— Marc Hauser