Distinguished Quote by Herbert Spencer

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body…

— Leonard Sweet

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body…

— Anonymous

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to…

— Nicholas Mosley

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those…

— Anna Godbersen

Always recognize that there is a difference between living and being alive

— Simphiwe Dumisani Ntuli

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between…

— Annie Besant

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

— Anonymous

In the end, living is defined by dying.

— Bernard Beckett

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it…

— John Dewey

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

— Alan Watts