Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty. — Unknown Author
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other… — Alan Cooper
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not… — Grace Slick
If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is… — Richard St. Barbe Baker
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living… — Paramahansa Yogananda
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice,… — Paul Hawken
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live… — Mahatma Gandhi
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and… — Oliver Sacks
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

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