Quotes About Evolution

Memories don't just pile up—they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord. Though the process, for me, is quite different from what happens to the rest of you when something disappears from the island.

It's the young who have to break the old records. That's the way the world works

Memories don't just pile up - they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord.

No era una vergüenza el no saber, sino solo una señal que podía llevar hacia una nueva verdad.

So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being, like the flowers and the stars? You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. THat's no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

You needn't be afraid of them. When you see them, just remember that you, too, like all other human beings, were once a monster in one of your previous lives. Neither hate them nor do battle with them, just continue on your way.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Ideas have a history. They undergo a process of development. They change, are modified, and are distributed. They could be forgotten for a while, but they might reappear years, decades, or even centuries later. No matter how much you may wish you were an island unto yourself, such is not the case. Your upbringing, your culture, your associates—all of them have shaped who you are. That comes from the past.

as we think, so we become.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.

in fact the only thing that really matters is inner transformation.

When we see for ourselves there is a problem, change becomes much easier.

What seems devastating at the time can turn out to be a new beginning, a different chapter.

there is no such thing as permanence or solidity—that every thing and every being in this world is undergoing constant change.

We forget that it's only a matter of time before there is change—and, once again, a shift in perspective.

the act of imagining how an ideal self might be is the start of its manifestation.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts and realizing our highest potential.