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“The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.”
“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself ...”
“A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.”
“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch that it does on the mainland. Species are only as tough a...”
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual com...”
“In the age of arms, a super warhead might be the most powerful for its destructiveness. In the age of farms, an irrigation system is most powerful, for it feeds lives. But how do you define power a...”
“Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for thin...”
“How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature...”
“In a fascinating study, Barrett (1999) demonstrated that children as young as threeyears of age have a sophisticated cognitive understanding of predator-prey encounters. Children from both an indus...”
“She captured the spot of my worlds centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.”
“If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what its like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title human. Ive ...”
“I am inclined to trust you. You shouldnt be like that with another man, not ever; but I cant help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that i...”
“How would it alter Juliets love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget t...”
“For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolut...”
“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intelle...”
“People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.”
“Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.”
“The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.”
“Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.”
“You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.”
