It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.
Rene DubosIt is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.
Rene DubosNature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
Rene DubosOne may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
Rene DubosMan not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
Rene Dubos