#extinct

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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.


Susan Sontag


#extinction #only #problems #solved #truly

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.


Will Cuppy


#been #chance #extinct #good #had

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.


John Gray


#extinction #humans #the-coast-opposite-of-humanity #unsaved #life

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.


Thomas Bernhard


#extinction #failure #thought #nature

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.


Asa Gray


#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.


Tom Hooper


#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.


Rebecca Solnit


#extinction #nature #page- #imagination

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#feeling #hatred #leads #values #which

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.


Brian Perkins


#born #death #eternal #extinction #extraordinary

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.


Kevin Kelly


#body #built #design #extinct #given