Best Organism Sayings
268 Organism quotes by 216 unique authors
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The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize…
— Carl Rogers
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The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it…
— Joel Garreau
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The…
— Unknown Author
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
— Alan Watts
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever…
— William E. Gladstone
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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
— William James
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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
— Jerome Bruner
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Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to…
— Joel Fuhrman
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Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
— C.S. Lewis
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,…
— Gregory Bateson
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
— Ezra Pound
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
— Christopher Dawson
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People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
— Daniel Nathans
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Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To…
— Unknown Author
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The economy is a very sensitive organism.
— Hjalmar Schacht
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous…
— Alan Watts
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I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and…
— Gabriel Marcel
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Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences…
— Sidney Hook
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
— Ernst Haeckel
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In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -…
— David Easton
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We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all…
— James Lovelock
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The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes…
— Jane Roberts
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
— David Hilbert
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