#viv

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. ↗

— Joe Murray

#elements #excitement #first #i #memory

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#elements #excitement #first #i #memory

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#culture #engaged #had #problems #survival

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#i #i think #running #running away #some

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#courage #danger #else #more #more than anything

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#live #meaning #some #suffer #suffering

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything