Change Quotes

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?

I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.