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Life Quotes by Rene Dubos
- Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
- The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
- Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
- It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
- It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the…
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts…
- But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner…
- But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive…
- Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual…
- With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time…
- The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury…
- Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny…
- ... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend…
- As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle