Quotes about Sentient

Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.Lily: What's that?Abram: That Love is the higher path Votes: 3

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Votes: 2

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. Votes: 2

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. Votes: 2

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. Votes: 2

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. Votes: 2

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. Votes: 2

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. Votes: 2

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. Votes: 2

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. Votes: 2

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. Votes: 2

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. Votes: 2

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. Votes: 2

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming. Votes: 2

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. Votes: 2

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. Votes: 2

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat. Votes: 2

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. Votes: 2

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys. Votes: 2

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. Votes: 2

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. Votes: 2

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends. Votes: 2

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe. Votes: 2

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible. Votes: 2

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. Votes: 2

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Votes: 2

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players. Votes: 2

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. Votes: 0

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. Votes: 0

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering. Votes: 0

All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. Votes: 0

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. Votes: 0

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. Votes: 0

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty. Votes: 0

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. Votes: 0

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . Votes: 0

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth. Votes: 0

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. Votes: 0

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. Votes: 0

All sentient beings should have at least one right"”the right not to be treated as property Votes: 0

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. Votes: 0

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. Votes: 0

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. Votes: 0

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them. Votes: 0

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. Votes: 0

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? Votes: 0

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. Votes: 0

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. Votes: 0

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. Votes: 0

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. Votes: 0

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. Votes: 0

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Votes: 0

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. Votes: 0

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. Votes: 0

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead. Votes: 0

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve. Votes: 0

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. Votes: 0

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. Votes: 0

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. Votes: 0

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings. Votes: 0

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. Votes: 0

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings. Votes: 0

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first. Votes: 0

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. Votes: 0

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. Votes: 0

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh. Votes: 0

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. Votes: 0

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings. Votes: 0

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. Votes: 0

Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates Votes: 0

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. Votes: 0

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so. Votes: 0

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. Votes: 0

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them. Votes: 0

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering. Votes: 0

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. Votes: 0

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it." Votes: 0

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity. Votes: 0

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value. Votes: 0

For the moment I can think of nothing"” except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. Votes: 0

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason). Votes: 0

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away. Votes: 0

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings. Votes: 0

I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I like to pretend it is. Votes: 0

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be. Votes: 0

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center. Votes: 0

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself. Votes: 0

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful. Votes: 0

Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature. Votes: 0

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others. Votes: 0

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy. Votes: 0

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. Votes: 0

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila. Votes: 0

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Votes: 0

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together. Votes: 0

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so. Votes: 0

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. Votes: 0

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals. Votes: 0

Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings. Votes: 0

I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less... Votes: 0

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs. Votes: 0

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed. Votes: 0

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing. Votes: 0

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy. Votes: 0

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works. Votes: 0

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever. Votes: 0

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat. Votes: 0

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Votes: 0

Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things. Votes: 0

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. Votes: 0