Conditions Quote by Michel Onfray

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

— Stephen Covey

We are not evolved but evolving.

— Frank Schaeffer

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

— Carl Sagan

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human…

— William Irwin Thompson

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

— Anonymous

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

— Romario

“Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination.”

— Will Durant

Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's…

— Anonymous

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

— Leon Kass