#creature

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. ↗

— John James Audubon

#beautiful #caught #changed #creatures #day

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#among #been #cast #creatures #destiny

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#consistently #creature #day #earth #ever

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice. ↗

— Frederick Albert Cook

#dead #ice #only #pulsating #were

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. ↗

— Dean Inge

#between #creature #direction #god #halfway

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen. ↗

— David Blaine

#creatures #ever #great #i #i think

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creature #every #fact #human #mystery

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. ↗

— John Donne

#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#dirty #just #little #love #need

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #only #refuses