"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

Survival, May, Order, Succeed

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"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Survival, Death, Choice, Hope

"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Rabbit, Predator

"There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Survival, Determination, Pride, Strength

"I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Survival, History, Humanity, Hope

"I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulder blades, only I seldom had bread."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Survival, Hunger, Struggle, Body

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Hiding, Size, Environment

"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Danger, Teeth, Predator

"Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Survival, Immortality, Power, Healing, Behavior

"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Survival, Danger, Stupidity, Courage

"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Survival, Sanity, Struggle, Life

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"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."

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"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."

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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."

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"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."

"There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination."

"I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulder blades, only I seldom had bread."

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

"Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation."

"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."

"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

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"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."

"Law is born from despair of human nature."

"We cannot put off living until we are ready."

"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."

"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."

"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."