# Quote — Dan Simmons, Endymion

> “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
>
> “Empathy,” Aenea said softly.

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [Endymion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion.md)
- Page: 449
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#Endymion_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/humanity-has-evolved-as

## More from this book

> I began to understand. “A Faustian bargain...,” I said.
>
> “The Faustian bargain,” said the girl. “All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.”

p. 498 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/i-began-to-understand.md)

> The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

p. 344 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/the-universe-is-indifferent.md)

> Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/why-am-i-seeking.md)