Quotes About Change

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and altars like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn

315Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

Evet beyefendi, ben maymundan geliyorum. Ama siz ona doÄŸru ilerliyorsunuz!

There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

An old saying had it that war is too serious to be left to the military. These days it needs bringing up to date: the world has become too complex to be left to those who used to run it.

A civilização não chegará à perfeição enquanto a última pedra da última igreja não tiver caído sobre o último padre, e a Terra tiver sido libertada daquela escória.

as Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; and what would be the point of saying today that the abbot Abo had a stern eye and pale cheeks, when by now he and those around him are dust and their bodies have the mortal grayness of dust (only their souls, God grant, shining with a light that will never be extinguished)?

As the Chinese said, to curse someone: "May you live in an interesting period.

No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone

Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.

el mundo se ha convertido en un asunto demasiado complicado para dejar que sea gobernado por quienes lo gobernaban antes.

don't trust renewals of the human race when curias and courts speak of them.

C?n ph?i phá v? lu?t l? trÆ°á»›c khi có th? ph?c v? nó má»™t cách thích h?p.

wo Es war, soll Ich werden.

Mundus senescit, ? ?????? ??????.

Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;

The polemical title is "The Force of Falsity," and in the lecture I wanted to show how a number of ideas that today we consider false actually changed the world (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) and how, in the best instances, false beliefs and discoveries totally without credibility could then lead to the discovery of something true (or at least something we consider true today). In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity.

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Todos hemos experimentado un saludable temor ante ogros y hombres lobo, pero de mayores hemos aprendido a no tenerles miedo a las manzanas envenenadas sino al agujero de ozono, y de pequeñines todos hemos creído que los niños los traía la cigüeña, pero esto no nos ha impedido de mayores adoptar un sistema más adecuado (y agradable) para producirlos.

Si vede che la conversione trasforma anche i tratti del viso oltre a quelli dell'anima.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers.

Toplumd???na itilenleri yeniden onlarla bütünleÅŸtirmedikçe, Tanr?'n?n kullar?n? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek olanaks?zd?r.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances.