#iv

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#universe #nature

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. ↗

— Dominique De Menil

#art #divine #menil #rothko #art

Sometimes you don’t choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#inspirational #motivational #spiritual #courage

The living sinners on deadly ground. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature #pollution #sin #nature

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity; wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. ↗

— Ian Caldwell y Dustin Thomason

#nature

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. ↗

— Cliff Gladwin

#clutch #cometh #courage #inspirational #inspire

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#obliviousness #survival #nature

When both the inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Through understanding both the inner man and woman, we understand that outer relationships simply mirror the relationship between our inner man and woman. This understanding gives us the opportunity to take conscious responsibility for our choices and our further steps towards spiritual maturity. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#creativuty #healing #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats. ↗

— Wil McCarthy

#nature-of-things #point-of-view #protagonists #universe #nature