Biology Quote by Walker Percy

“Spontaneous self-organization is not restricted to living systems;”

— Oliver Sacks

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own…

— Richard Levins

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of…

— Antonio Damasio

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves.…

— Peter Dickens

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

— Claude Bernard

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it…

— Erving Goffman

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

— Kevin Kelly

“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only…

— Paul Goodman

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

The Self does not move. The world moves in it.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against…

— Thomas Mann