Organic Quotes - page 2

You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. (Chuck Palahniuk)
The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. View quote
Jack Vance
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented. View quote
Erving Goffman
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance. View quote
Jackson Pollock
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. View quote
John Muir
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. View quote
Boris Pasternak
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. View quote
Douglas Adams
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic. (Tony Visconti)
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism; the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of "order." The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy because for him it serves only one quality: force. View quote
Erich Fromm
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water. View quote
Novalis
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. View quote
Stefan Zweig
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Thus it may be said that not only the soul, the mirror of an indestructible universe, is indestructible, but also the animal itself, though its mechanism may often perish in part and take off or put on an organic slough. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies develop to access, store, and use in greater densities larger quantities of free energy through the ongoing improvement of their technologies. As a consequence societies, the same as natural systems, tend to grow larger in size, develop more intricate relations among their diverse components, and create more massive and flexible modes of interaction among them. View quote
Ervin László
I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really. View quote
Rick Riordan
I want some time without you organic life forms. (Rick Riordan)
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food. View quote
Ruth Reichl
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change. View quote
Sarah Addison Allen
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen. View quote
Kris Carr
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it. View quote
Lisa Gardner