“True character arises from a deeper well than religion.”

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

Persist! The world needs all you can give.

The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

There is no better high than discovery.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.

Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.