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Quotes About Evolution

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.
~ David Henry
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
~ David Nicholls
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
~ E. B. White
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
~ Edmund Burke
Makes of men date, like makes of car.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.
~ Elvis Presley
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.
~ Eric Hoffer
As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.
~ Eric Roberts
Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
~ Erich Fromm
As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.
~ Farrah Fawcett
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
~ Franz Grillparzer
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.
~ Freya Stark
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I was a great many far cries from myself.
~ Gary Lutz
God creates the animals, man creates himself.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
~ George Herbert
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.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury