Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and… — John Daido Loori
All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. — Dalai Lama
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? — Anne Rice
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make… — Nick Brandt
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead. — Dalai Lama
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. — Daniel H. Wilson
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this,… — Frederick Lenz
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and… — Gary L. Francione
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those… — Dogen
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. — Gene Baur
Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings. — Frederick Lenz
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. — Richard Eder
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the… — Gary L. Francione
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. — Jane Goodall
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo

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