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  • It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

    Death   Witty   Atheist  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books
  • No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

    Spring   Teeth   Savages  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.495, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

  • It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

    Eye   Our Love   Bleeding  
    Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]
  • In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

    Rain   Garden   Rivers  
  • If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

    Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.161, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

    Oceana ch. 5 (1886)
  • She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

    Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster
  • Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

    Men   Giving   Landscape  
    Doris Lessing (2014). “African Stories”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  • Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.

    Desire   Wrecks   Want  
  • The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

    Love   Dog   Baby  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

    The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2
  • September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

    Night   Air   Purple  
  • The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company
  • For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

    Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster
  • Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

    Ocean   Marine   Animal  
  • As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

  • Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

    Winter   Animal   Snow  
  • Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

    Nature   Animal   Names  
  • I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

    Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.41, Penguin
  • You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

    Death   Faith   Atheist  
  • Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

    Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."
  • If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books
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