Identity Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity Law Law of nature Nature Self preservation
“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
“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
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
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell 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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. — Thomas Hobbes 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
“I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.” — Jacques Sandulescu Copy Share Image
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s self. Everything in the worldly life is nothing but intoxication. The food is intoxicating, the senses are intoxicating. [Therefore] Go to the one, who is without mada (pride), the one who has destroyed all intoxication. There… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
