Vegetative State

Famous quotes containing the words vegetative state, vegetative and/or state:

“Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

“Buddha has covered the walls of the great temple
With the vegetative speed of his imagery”
—Denis Devlin (1908–1959)

“No man’s nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)