Quotes About Development

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

I was a man by middle school.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Children need adult men in their lives.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.