#species

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beware #dead #death #let us #life

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#diversity #eliminating #good #good way #i

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

#chosen #eat #good #natural #species

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#best #borrow #composed #distinct #form

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#comes #earth #exists #heaven #made

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#only #species #towards #valid #voyage

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#achieve #continuation #dirty #love is #only

Endangered species are our friends. ↗

— Yao Ming

#endangered species #friends #our #species

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#advantageous #convenient #geometry #in other words #most