529 quotes found
“The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.”
“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”
“Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”
“Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.”
“Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.”
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.”
“I think it’s imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. That’s how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names it God, goes toward it, goes up in flames. Same goes for moths....”
“Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming — you simply, are. Go easy.”
“...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe. Now, this is...”
“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
“Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and f...”
“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which...”
“It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.”
“Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”
“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring ...”
“I've been in love for five hundred million years…”
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courag...”
“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.”
“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases t...”
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on this planet. . . . that cultural developments could be shaped through...”
