Change
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Change may refer to:
Quotations

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius, in Meditations|Meditations, IV, 3

We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in The Heart of Matter (1950)

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 18 (1844)

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Nature", Essays, Second Series (1844)

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, quoted in Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus, Fragment 41, quoted by Plato in Cratylus

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Richard Hooker, as quoted in the preface of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life.

Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock‎ (1970), p. 304

Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought to be all captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start again. There would be fun in that. Some interest, — something to talk about.

Editorial in the New York Journal of Commerce (August 1845)

 
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