#ceaseless

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#business #ceaseless #head #heart #only

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. ↗

— Charles Reznikoff

#face #fingers #molding #thoughts #your

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#consequences #law #pause #permitting #perspective

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#bewail #ceaseless #effort #human #human actions

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#between #ceaselessly #decisive #essence #evil

Pagan lifted one shoulder and I prayed by all that was holy that she’d take off that pink bra. This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#ceaseless #death

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#ceaseless #demonic #efforts #exploits #forward

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#away #ceaselessly #connection #maintain #must

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#hears #listening #murmuring #murmurs #subconscious