"Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits……" — C.S. Lewis
"Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks."
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans…
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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and…
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[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world,…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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— C.S. Lewis
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