Preservation Quote by N.D. Wilson Download Open image “In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.” — N.D. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Preservation Self Self preservation Ultimate World
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
“Self-preservation is a natural instinct while self-destruction goes against the grain of nature’s order. This spawns chaos, and chaos is freedom in its purest… — Paul Allih Copy Share Image
“Self-preservation is a biological imperative even in the lowest of life forms, but annoyance is a trait exclusive to the most deviant.” — Whiskey Britches Copy Share Image
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere,… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“We as a species have not realized the most precious qualities with which nature has endowed us, the abilities that will enable us to… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He was a man with eyebrows, or maybe they were eyebrows with a man. Ownership would have been hard to establish, and Cyrus couldn’t… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God gives you… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests. — Adam Werbach Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
