Famous quotes containing the words basis and/or states:
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)