Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life… — Moby
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps… — Diogenes
It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever… — Dalai Lama
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to… — Lucretius
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think… — Dalai Lama
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to… — Antony Flew
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for… — Matt Groening
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought or emotion after… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for… — Davey Havok
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of… — Amit Ray
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and… — Gautama Buddha
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone –… — Les Standiford
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood… — Seneca the Younger
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering. — Gautama Buddha
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If… — Paul Davies

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