The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Huxley, Aldous
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Lincoln, Abraham
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo) Roman Congregation
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, “Keep tomorrow dark,” and […]
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. Miller, Henry
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Karr, Alphonse
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change. McGinley, Laurence Joseph
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Shaw, George Bernard
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitides and values which shape the course of a nation’s development. A revolution whichaims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of […]
The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion. Wollheim, Donald Allen
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. Ching, I
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown Can never come over again. Kingsley, Charles
