529 quotes found
“Ever since about 3.8 billion years ago, when the first cells began quivering in the primordial ooze, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, awkward feeding ...”
“That's not me, Honey. That's evolution!”
“The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.”
“The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service”
“Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't ge...”
“But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.”
“The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.”
“It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!”
“Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.”
“You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.”
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget.”
“Life doesn't happen suddenly. It fades in.”
“With all respect to your religion or world-view thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes the keyword is "thank" just have some gratitude and be thankful.”
“If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.”
“When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?”
“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.”
“Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.”
“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that thi...”
“If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.”
“The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.”
