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Animate Quotes by David Abram
- For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of…
- The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the…
- To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them,…
- If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon…
More Animate Quotes
- The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be… — Unknown Author
- Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children… — Amos Bronson Alcott
- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes… — Henry David Thoreau
- In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. — Carl von Clausewitz
- I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives… — Jeff Foxworthy
- At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The… — Lucretius
- It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire… — Louis Sullivan
- The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien