Quotes About Evolution

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

La voz de la conciencia también pasa por un cambio de voz

Darwin: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives…nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Seen from a contemporary vantage point, not only is modern Greece definitively unrelated to ancient Greece, it may well be its antithesis.5

As elsewhere, war forged Greeks out of peasants.

post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.

humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.

He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.

Solitario como un astrónomo que en su observatorio contempla cada noche, por la diminuta abertura de su telescopio, las miríadas de estrellas, sus misteriosas evoluciones, su cambiante confusión, cómo desaparecen yvuelven a encenderse, Jakob Mendel miraba a través de sus gafas y desde aquella mesa cuadrada ese otro universo de los libros, que asimismo gira eternamente y renace transformado,aquel mundo sobre nuestro mundo.

la escritura, que ha evolucionado desde los pliegos más sencillos, pasando por los rollos, hasta culminar en el libro, ha puesto fin al trágico confinamiento de las vivencias y de la experiencia en el alma individual: desde que existe el libro nadie está ya completamente solo, sin otra perspectiva que la que le ofrece su propio punto de vista, pues tiene al alcance de su mano el presente y el pasado, el pensar y el sentir de toda la humanidad.

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.

S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

People have always loved a love story. But for most of the past our ancestors did not try to live in one.

We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then invents something else to take the place of it, like running on a treadmill.

VITA MUTARI - the literal translation from Latin to English is "Life Transformation." That is the closest thing I could think of the feeling of labor/birth... what you are feeling isn't pain, it's life transformation. Is it dramatic? You bet! I think it should be!

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.