Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the f...
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we...
His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has written...