1,799 Quotes About Evolution

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Faced with the primary instinct that a genetic programme pushes to reproductive need, humans have managed to divert from that to make themselves beings of pleasure. In the end, there lies the difference. Man is the only mammal that has sex for pleasure.