Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That’s why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Of all the animals on earth, only the human is born with the capacity to conquer its animal nature.

Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.

We didn't trudge through 3.5 billion years of evolution, so that we could carry on with the same freaking acts of recklessness and selfishness as we used to in the jungle.

We gain from the new science of mind not only insights into ourselves - how we perceive, learn, remember, feel, believe and act - but also a new perspective of ourselves and our fellow human beings in the context of biological evolution.

Everything needs to evolve based on the need of the era - every idea, every tradition, every school of thought - if it doesn’t then either it gets destroyed or destroys the world.

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.

Growth nourishes love, love fosters growth.

I expand, therefore I am.