Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
— Immanuel Kant
Passioned Organized Life quotations
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
When you are a member of an organization, life isn't only about you.
As part of a circle of people who depend on one another, you watch one another's back and remain loyal to the concept of brotherhood.
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.
To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception.
In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization;
not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.
One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight.
It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.
Life cannot have had a random beginning.
... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.
If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.
Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.
The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.
My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning;
to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.