System Surroundings

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or surroundings:

    “Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)