Progressive Adaptation Quotes

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Evolution not revolution

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.