"The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity."
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"Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life."
"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."
"A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution."
"There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!"
"Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious."
"The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such."
"Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation."
"Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself."
"Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven."
"The goal of evolution is self - conquest"
"You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary."
"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."
"The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion."
"The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations."
"The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity."
"Animals are footprints of God."
"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
"When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began"
"E canchis amnia. Everything from shells."