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Organism Quotes by Alan Watts
- Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
- 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…
- There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no…
- Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise…
- Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off…
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a…
- When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He…
More Organism Quotes
- The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its… — Annie Besant
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler
- The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,… — Nick Cave
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky
- Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi
- Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla
- By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
- A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks
- If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau
- Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard
- [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger
- We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher