Selectionism Quotes & Sayings

They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So — Harper Bliss

And, like, maybe no matter how hard I investigate, I'll never find one real murderer among all these decoys. There're just so many different kinds of bad. — Kathleen Hale

Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple. — Robert Neelly Bellah

Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened. — Penney Peirce

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together. — Beth Moore

Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes. — A Meredith Walters

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place. — Paolo Sorrentino

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement. — Kevin Systrom

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers. — J.L. Austin

Art is running away without ever leaving home. — Twyla Tharp

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp. — Richard Llewellyn

Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have. — Stephen Jay Gould

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience. — Brendon Urie