Quotes About Adaptation

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

ca s? treci de la limba român? la limba francez? e ca È™i cum ai trece de la o rug?ciune la un contract.

El paraíso no era un lugar soportable, de lo contrario, el primero hombre se habría adaptado a él; este mundo tampoco lo es, ya que en él se añora el paraíso o se da otro por seguro. ¿Qué hacer? ¿A dónde ir? No hagamos nada, no vayamos a ningún lado, así sin más.

Être moderne, c'est bricoler dans l'incurable.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without 'fundamentación.' I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

Po przejÅ›ciu powa?nej choroby w niektórych krajach Azji, na przykÅ'ad w Laosie, zdarza siÄ™ zmienia? imiÄ™. Có? za wizja u ?ródeÅ' takiego zwyczaju! Po prawdzie, powinno siÄ™ zmienia? imiÄ™ po ka?dym wa?nym doÅ›wiadczeniu.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.

Al gallego no se le pesca con anzuelo de aire

Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Because meetings involve people, things can and will go wrong. Provide first aid when necessary.

What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing ... a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two Governments, is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other.

Everything changes; the old world—-the classical civilization of form and definition—passes away, a new world of free spirit and inward growth emerges; between the two lies a mixed weltering interval of trouble and confusion.

The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the prototype of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.