Apes The Gods Quotes & Sayings

I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live. — Neil Peart

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." - HUSTON SMITH16 — Ray Kurzweil

I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong. — Elaine Irwin

The time you spend loving is the most valuable time. — Debasish Mridha

All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend. — Rudyard Kipling

ardent persistence in devotion, — David Bentley Hart

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it. — Ben Affleck

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. — Mignon McLaughlin

Would the Gardners and the workers at the Yerkes Primate Center be remembered dimly as legendary folk heroes or gods of another species? Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes? — Carl Sagan

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer