Quotes About Evolution

Isn't there a way to break the patterns of the past and tune into our highest future possibility—and to begin to operate from that place?

The crisis of our time isn't just a crisis of a single leader, organization, country, or conflict. The crisis of our time reveals the dying of an old social structure and way of thinking, an old way of institutionalizing and enacting collective social forms. Frontline

You cannot understand a system unless you change it.

But you can create conditions that allow a deeper alchemy to work—that is, conditions that help leaders in a system to broaden and deepen their view of the system from ego to eco, from "me" to

The older generation of Vikings no doubt complained that the younger generation were getting soft and did not rape and pillage with the same dedication as in years gone by.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

Dogs were with us from the very beginning. And of all the animals that walked the long centuries beside us, they always walked the closest. And then they paid the price. Fuck us.

Of all the animals that travelled the long road through the ages with us, dogs always walked closest.

when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.

Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense--a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.

Culture lies beyond the purpose of nature.

On the contrary, every civilized human being, however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous vestiges of earlier evolutionary stages going back even to the reptilian age, so the human psyche is a product of evolution which, when followed back to its origins, shows countless archaic traits.

Although our civilized consciousness has separated itself from the instincts, the instincts have not disappeared; they have merely lost their contact with consciousness.

Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man's fundamental outlook.

what is the fate of great nations but a summation of the psychic changes in individuals?

But people who are not above the general level of consciousness have not yet discovered that it is just as pre- sumptuous and fantastic to assume that matter produces mind, that apes give rise to human beings, that from the harmonious interplay of the drives of hunger, love, and power Kant's Critique of Pure Reason should have emerged, and that all this could not possibly be other than it is.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.