Quotes About Change

Living structures can be only if they become; they can exist only if they change. Change and growth are inherent qualities of the life process.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n deÄŸiÅŸebileceÄŸine inanç duymam için benim deÄŸiÅŸme deneyimini yaÅŸam?? olmam gerekir.

Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.

Man is not a subject opposing the world in order to transform it; he is in the world making his being in the world the occasion for constant self-transformation

Yeni bilim'in geliÅŸmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiÅŸ Avrupa'da, dinsel deÄŸerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi baÅŸgöstermiÅŸtir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu ÅŸu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiÅŸtir: Tanr? yoksa, her ÅŸey mümkündür.

Though there is no fixed human nature, we cannot regard human nature as being infinitely malleable and able to adapt itself to any kind of conditions without developing a psychological dynamism of its own

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

Ich habe arm angefangen, ich war später ein reicher Mann, ich bin jetzt wieder ein armer Teufel, es spielt keine Rolle. Wie's kommt, wird's gefressen, Ob mich die Sonne auf meiner Terrasse in Leoni bescheint oder hier auf dem Kreuzberg, das ist mir so egal wie der Sonne.

Wir werden nicht daran zugrunde gehen, dass einige Zeitgenossen besonders niederträchtig sind, und nicht daran, dass einigen von diesen und jenen mit einigen von denen identisch sind, die den Globus verwalten. Wir gehen an der seelischen Bequemlichkeit aller Beteiligten zugrunde. Wir wollen, dass es sich ändert, aber wir wollen nicht, dass wir uns ändern. Wozu sind die anderen da?, denkt jeder und wiegt sich im Schaukelstuhl.

Ich bin ein Wirtschaftler und erkläre Ihnen: Die Gegenwartskrise ohne eine vorherige Erneuerung des Geistes ökonomisch lösen zu wollen, ist Quacksalberei!

Er musste an eine Zeichnung von Daumier denken, die Der Fortschritt hieß. Daumier hatte auf dem Blatt Schnecken dargestellt, die hintereinander herkrochen, das war das Tempo der menschlichen Entwicklung. Aber die Schnecken krochen im Kreis! Und das war das Schlimmste.

And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.

but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

No one could become stranger than the person you once loved

Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of indifference. How do you suppose that can lead to any good end?

One always expects something else.

One is never too young. Only always too old.

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!

Odejít není vždy tak snadné, zvláÅ¡Å¥ když ?lovÄ›k s sebou musí vzít i své vlastní já.

Jugend! Wir sind alle nicht mehr als zwanzig Jahre. Aber jung? Jugend? Das ist lange her. Wir sind alte Leute.

Albert expresses it: ''The war has ruined us for everything.'' He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing

Ali hteti zadržati prošlost zna?i odre?i se budu?nosti.

Stebuklas, kai j? patiri, niekuomet n?ra pilnas, tik atmintis padaro j? tokiu.

The devil take all conventions, they were made for other times.