Quotes About Evolution

Kada se gledaš u ogledalu i želiš da ga razbiješ, nije ogledalo to što treba da bude slomljeno, nego si ti taj, koji treba da se promeni. ~ Nepoznat autor ~

Little by little, the plan changed because one of the pillars of Pep's methods is based on the evolution of the process. Guardiola has never believed in absolute truths, which gives him flexibility when it comes to interpreting life.

Llega un momento en que es necesario abandonar las ropas usadas que ya tienen la forma de nuestro cuerpo y olvidar los caminos que nos llevan siempre a los mismos lugares. Es el momento de la travesía. Y, si no osamos emprenderla nos habremos quedado para siempre al margen de nosotros mismos. Fernando Pessoa

But I can't be alone, can I? Of course not; I'm not that special. Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better wold? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?

It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.

So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better world? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?

El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta

En algún punto de la evolución el esperma podrido, el mas corrupto entró por la puerta trasera del óvulo. Y todo se fue al carajo.

My readings also led me to some of China's recent transformations that had made China almost unrecognizable to an historian.

I was far away from where China was changing and was constantly reminded that more changes were around the corner.

The concept of dharma evolved over time, its meaning shifting from a 'ritual ethics of deeds' to a more personal virtue based on one's conscience.

if the classic idea of the Atonement ever again resumes a leading place in Christian theology, it is not likely that it will revert to precisely the same forms of expression that it has used in the past; its revival will not consist in a putting back of the clock.

Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.

Tradition is laziness.

Our path leads to the threshold of maturity. Once you arrive at it, you are also worthy of receiving that gift. In either case, you will have become a phoenix: it is up to you to get there by force.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason.

To pass in pursuit of an ideal from the barbarous to the civilised state, and then, when this ideal has lost its virtue, to decline and die, such is the cycle of the life of a people.

Peoples are not governed in accordance with their caprices of the moment, but as their character determines that they shall be governed. Centuries are required to form a political system and centuries needed to change it. Institutions have no intrinsic virtue: in themselves they are neither good nor bad.

It is not easy to say as yet what will one day be evolved from this necessarily somewhat chaotic period. What will be the fundamental ideas on which the societies that are to succeed our own will be built up? We do not at present know. Still it is already clear that on whatever lines the societies of the future are organised, they will have to count with a new power, with the last surviving sovereign force of modern times, the power of crowds.