Quotes About Stagnation

Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in progress. They thought the golden age was in the past, and that the world was stagnant, if not deteriorating.

People tended to reconcile themselves to the status quo, declaring that 'this is how it always was, and this is how it always will be'.

Since 1789, despite numerous wars, revolutions and upheavals, humans have not managed to conceive of any new value.

A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

This means that the search for security and certainty is actually an attachment to the known. And what's the known? The known is our past. The known is nothing other than the prison of past conditioning. There's no evolution in that — absolutely none at all. And when there is no evolution, there is stagnation, entropy, disorder, and decay. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom

You do not allow these to flow, which is to say to be released; therefore, they have no choice but to stagnate. Good impulses die for lack of being acted on. Love grows timid and afraid when not expressed. Hatred and anxiety loom larger than life.

Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

Y así como durante siglos hubo un consenso en torno a que la tierra era plana, en el país prevalece un consenso para no cambiar.

I often half wonder why it is that life, or mine at least, seems less to change from day to day than to be solved like an equation.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

I felt like I was going through the motions of living my lukewarm life with the occasional flare-ups of awesomeness here and there.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

years. In fact the whole apartment, which six years ago had seemed like a way station to some better place, had ended up solidifying around Sasha, gathering mass and weight, until she felt both mired in it and lucky to have it—as if she not only couldn't move on but didn't want to.

In fact the whole apartment, which six years ago had seemed like a way station to some better place, had ended up solidifying around Sasha, gathering mass and weight, until she felt both mired in it and lucky to have it—as if she not only couldn't move on but didn't want to.

In the sad B movie that was life in Grantham, actors were recast periodically, replaced with younger models, but the script itself never changed. It was that kind of town.