Top 205 Sentient Quotes & Sayings

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I like to pretend it is.

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.