Change Quotes

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

To stand still is to lose, To move is to gain, To change is to grow.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “This, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling […]

Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it.

I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.

All things must change. To something new, to something strange.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any point and to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us. This […]

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; or is it we that pass and they that stay?