Tom Robbins Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Truth, Ambition

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

• Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Light, Soul

• Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Track, Manipulation

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

• 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Ironic

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

• Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

  Tom Robbins

  Progress, Fundamentals, Evolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.69, Bantam

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