Lailah Gifty Akita Quotes

“We are offspring of God.”

“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being open to other forms. When the parent imposes an arbitrary system of reinforcement (punishment and reward) in order to manipulate the offspring to act against its own best interests, selection will favor offspring that resist such schedules of reinforcement.”

“The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.”

“Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.”

“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation).”

“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.”

“Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.”

“Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.”

“You just don’t allow time to while away but you take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.”

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”