Sentient Quotes

131 quotes by 99 authors

Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, donâ€™t put a character in a room alone â€“… — 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
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt… — Peter F. Hamilton
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of… — Dainin Katagiri
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward… — Dogen
Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering… — Amartya Sen
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments… — Peter Cheeke
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological… — Timothy Morton
As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy… — Deepak Chopra
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. — Frances Wright
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind… — Hakim Bey
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free… — Unknown Author
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
BeingÂ veganÂ is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. Â First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing… — Gary L. Francione
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. Â That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all… — Gary L. Francione

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