Quotes About Evolution

Elk 'ideaal', in het begin gevoed door het bloed van zijn adepten, verbruikt zichzelf en verdwijnt naarmate het door de massa wordt overgenomen.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

She liked talking to him, and the rest was irrelevant. People changed over their lives after all, becoming thinner or heavier, balder or more grey. It was their essence that mattered most

that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.

Gli eventi della vita ci cambiano. Come se la nostra anima - sempre che l'anima esista - fosse fatta di una plastilina che viene costantemente rimodellata.

My relationship with God has evolved as well. I no longer rail or beg or sass back. I was standing on a bluff over the ocean the other day and suddenly laughed out loud as I realized what an illusion that was, what an impossibility. That would assume a relationship between a "me" and "Other," a separation. There is no otherness; to be separate from God is to be separate from myself, from life itself. What I've been looking for, I'm looking with.

Are you a degenerate, Fisher?" "I'm working on it.

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.

The world exploded into billions of atoms, and when it rearranged itself, it may have looked the same, but really, it was a Whole New World.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.

To change yourself means to change the future.

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

Eu antes era uma mulher que sabia distinguir as coisas quando as via. Mas agora cometi o erro grave de pensar.

De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.

If my life is transformed into it-self, the thing I today call sensitivity will not exist — it will be called indifference. But I cannot yet grasp that way. It is as if hundreds of thousands of years from now we are finally no longer what we feel and think: we shall have something that more closely resembles a "mood" than an idea. We shall be the living matter revealing itself directly, ignorant of word, surpassing thought which is always grotesque.

só me comprometo com vida que nasça com o tempo e com ele cresça: só no tempo há espaço para mim.

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

Time for me means the dissolution of matter. The rotting of the organic as if time were a worm robbing the fruit of its pulp. Time does not exist. What we call time is the movement of the evolution of things, but time itself does not exist. Or it exists immutably and into time we transfer ourselves.