What did David Quammen mean by: Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. - David Quammen Writer Copy
+ By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Quammen, Cold, Evolution, Logic, 0 - David Quammen Writer
+ Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Quammen, Language, Literature, Speak, 0 - David Quammen Writer
+ Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn’t rush into it. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Quammen, Animal, Identity, Wildlife, 0 - David Quammen Writer
+ The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Quammen, Creatures, 0 - David Quammen Writer
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
