Sentient Quotes
131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors
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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
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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
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All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.
— Dalai Lama
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
— Anne Rice
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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
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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
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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
— Daniel H. Wilson
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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
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
— Daniel Dennett
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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
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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
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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
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Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
— Gene Baur
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
— Gary Hamel
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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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