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Quotes About Evolution

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long...
~ Ogden Nash
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
~ Ogden Nash
Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.
~ Ogden Nash
A Caution to Everybody consider the Auk. Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk. Consider Man, who may well become extinct, Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked.
~ Ogden Nash
The trouble with a kitten is that....... It eventually becomes a cat!
~ Ogden Nash
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
~ Ogden Nash
The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT
~ Ogden Nash
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long.
~ Ogden Nash
Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.
~ Ogden Nash
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
~ Okakura Kakuz?
Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. Its evolution may be roughly divided into three main stages: the Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea.
~ Okakura Kakuz?
wash off the journey
~ Unknown
in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.
~ Unknown
Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.
~ Olaf Stapledon
An image of an image, which is a perfect place to live if you want to be something other than what you once were.
~ Unknown
The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.
~ Unknown
It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Inimene muutub, kasvab vanadest oludest välja nagu laps rõivaist. Aeg voolab ja muudab kõike. On suuri ja väikesi sõdu, need suured muudavad maailma, väikesed inimest.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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~ Olga Tokarczuk
my belief that the human psyche evolved in order to defend us against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism. The psyche is our defence system – it makes sure we'll never understand what's going on around us. Its main task is to filter information, even though the capabilities of our brains are enormous. For it would be impossible to carry the weight of this knowledge. Because every tiny particle of the world is made of suffering.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
j'ai pris conscience que ce qui est en mouvement – en dépit de ses dangers – sera toujours meilleur que ce qui est immobile, et que le changement sera toujours quelque chose de plus noble que l'invariance ; car ce qui stagne est voué inévitablement à la dégénérescence, à la décomposition et, en fin de compte, au néant, alors que tout ce qui évolue saura durer, et même éternellement.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
That was a new generation of literature—text without spine, fleeting copy, something like the Kleenex that took the helm after the abdication of cloth handkerchiefs.
~ Olga Tokarczuk