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Letter "O" » one species
«It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Change,
Survival
| Keywords:
adaptable, intelligent, one species, species, strongest, survives
«A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
deepest, drowsy, electrified, electrify, electrifying, enkindled, enkindles, one species, reserves, species, tenderly
«In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
World
| Keywords:
evolution, excepting, geniuses, one species, preside, presided, presiding, primitive, There exists
«Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.»
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
confined, human species, one species, privileges, species
«The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
betrays, continually, nonetheless, one species, productive, There exists, vulgar
«If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
despotic, divinities, enchain, enchained, enchains, end point, handedness, in play, maltreated, off-hand, one species, sacrificial, toys
«There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
evident, one species, species, subjection, subordination
«Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bargain, bargaining, beasts, biologically, considered, formidable, in the bargain, one species, prey, preyed, preying, preys, species, systematically, The Bargain
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