Quotes About Evolution

Perder es dejar algo «que era», para entrar en otro lugar donde hay otra cosa «que es». Y eso «que es» no es lo mismo «que era».

Benim olmana ihtiyaç duyduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Eskiden olduÄŸun kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Olman benim iÅŸime gelen kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Benim olman? istediÄŸim kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Sen kimsen osun.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word precursor is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. -- Essay: Kafka and his Precursors

Es curiosa la suerte del escritor. Al principio es barroco, vanidosamente barroco, y al cabo de los años puede lograr, si son favorables los astros, no la sencillez, que no es nada, si no la modesta y secreta complejidad.

The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

al cabo de los siglos, todas las cosas recuperarán su estado anterior

În vremea aceea,c?utam înser?rile,mahalalele ÅŸi nefericirea;acum caut dimineÅ£ile,centrul ÅŸi senin?tatea.

para los antiguos la palabra escrita no era otra cosa que un sucedáneo de la palabra oral.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word precursor is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Omul ajunge s? se confunde, treptat, cu forma destinului s?u; cu vremea, el se suprapune circumstan?elor vie?ii sale.

Herakliti thote se njeriu nuk lahet kurre dy here ne te njejtin lume. Ne nuk lahemi kurre ne te njejtin lume, sepse ujerat e tij nderrojne. Akoma me e tmerrshme eshte se ne nuk jemi me pak ujore se lumi. Sa here qe lexojme nje liber, libri ndryshon, ngjyrimi i fjaleve te tij eshte tjeter. Sepse librat jane mbrujtur me te shkuar.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta.

A book of genius is a book that can be read in a slightly or very different way by each generation. - The Enigma of Shakespeare

After forty, every change becomes a symbol of time's passing.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours." —

Muttering, rolling our eyeballs upward, we are becoming a new kind of bivalve

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.

the famous conflict of science and religion has actually nothing to do with religion, but is simply of two sciences: that of 4000 B.C. and that of A.D. 2000.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.