Once - Quotes
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared.
Whenever you’re looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion - and whenever you’re looking at a problem, you’re feeling negative emotion, which, as you know, never gets us anywhere. But once you take the focus off yourself and your wants, and instead turn it toward how getting what you want might also benefit someone else, well then, you can’t help but succeed.
Species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
It is very difficult to be sure of anything, once you begin doubting your memory on principle.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out. Of course we must be willing to change our minds when warranted by new evidence. But the evidence must be strong.