Quotes About Evolution

The pleasurable qualities associated with the previous ego phase, once that system is outgrown, become painful for the ego of the next phase.

We were still looking upon war in the light of Victorian and previous wars," Morton wrote later, adding that he and his brother had failed to appreciate that the "nature and method of war had changed for all time in August 1914 and that no war in the future would exclude anybody, civilians, men, women or children.

The story, too, tends to illustrate the end of the century.

constantly keep in mind that whatever has happened

Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.

There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

For from this day forward his world can only widen. An existence that began in a crib, grew to a house, and extends over a two-block bicycle ride will now go even beyond that. I will share him with another woman, other adults, other children, other opinions, other points of view. I am no longer leading. I am standing behind him ready to guide from a new position.

The healthy person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the real man, is the one who has transcended himself.

Human life may not be more than a meaningless interlude in a vicious drama of flesh and bones that we call evolution; that the Creator may not care any more for the destiny of man or the self-perpetuation of individual men than He seems to have cared for the dinosaurs or the Tasmanians.

The eminent biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy wrote in a masterful essay (1955) that evolution would soon have weeded man out if his cultural categories of space, time, causality, etc., were entirely deceptive.

Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.

These are, in sum, the two great uniquenesses of human life—regularized food-sharing and cooperation with others—and they are unknown among the subhuman primates.

It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we'd better get ready. We need to know where we'd like to go.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

And that was the end of the beginning of that

That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.

I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

Gradually, then suddenly.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là.

Por entonces, ya había descubierto que todo, lo bueno y lo malo, deja un vacío cuando se interrumpe. Pero si se trata de algo malo, el vacío va llenándose por sí solo. Mientras que el vacío de algo bueno solo puede llenarse descubriendo algo mejor.