“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility of being: systems of matter that are unities of a manifold, not in virtue of a synthesizing perception… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“The alien is that which stems from elsewhere and does not belong here . . . The stranger who does not know the ways… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and development seems… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility of being:… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself through the… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
