#win

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? ↗

— Charles Darwin

#darwinism #evolution #human-mind #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ↗

— Ecclesiastes

#money #wine #life

Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first. ↗

— Rae Armantrout

#recognition #writing #life

Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#life

Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was to be blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland like a heather flower. The hot-house shelters from all chills and is full of perfume, but you can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moorland. ↗

— Ouida

#p- #life

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain. ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#decisions #knowing #life #love #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #reality #twinkies #life

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride. ↗