Quotes of Species - somelinesforyou

“ The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature. ”

- Virgil

“ Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ 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

“ Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives. ”

- Hippolyte Taine

“ It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. ”

- Doctor Who

“ PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Grief is a species of idleness. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. ”

- Ralph Abraham

“ Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. ”

- Herbert W. Boyer

“ If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms … he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it. ”

- Philip Henry Gosse

“ Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ”

- George Carlin

“ There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ And now, the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year… when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. ”

- Charles Delint

“ Bad taste is a species of bad morals. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ”

- James Boswell

“ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ”

- Konrad Lorenz

“ Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species — it is the tigress and lioness in you — which tends to defend when attacked. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exists in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ”

- Henry Fuseli

“ Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson
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