Quotes About Change

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. for nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

Time takes all and gives all.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El tiempo todo lo da y todo lo quita; todo cambia pero nada perece" (Giordano Bruno)

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to 'change the world', but also - and above all - to 'change time'.

Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go

Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti

Giorgio Nardone

since the beginning of the world men have been and will be, until the end thereof, bandied about by various shifts of fortune

Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

A questa città vorrei dire: gli uomini passano, le idee restano. Restano le loro tensioni morali e continueranno a camminare sulle gambe di altri uomini.»

Lo que indefinida y vertiginosamente cambia no tiene consistencia ni realidad, es tránsito perpetuo, y no sustancia.

Femeile de la r?zboi încoace deveniser? prea evidente, din generaÅ£ie în generaÅ£ie. Descoperindu-le pulpele, rochia le scurta misterul, dup? cum ÅŸi p?rul care le descoperea ÅŸi masculiniza ceafa. Nudismul desfiinÅ£a acest mister împuÅ£inat de dimensiunile hainelor. Odinioar? erau un foÅŸnet pentru suflet, acuma deveniser? un marÅŸ.

When I was young I read almost always to learn; Today, sometimes, I read to forget.

Quando uno lascia il suo paese è meglio che non ci torni più, perché ogni cosa muta faccia mentre egli è lontano, e anche le faccie con cui lo guardano son mutate, e sembra che sia diventato straniero anche lui.

ché i giovani hanno la memoria corta, e hanno gli occhi per guardare soltanto a levante; e a ponente non ci guardano altro che i vecchi, quelli che hanno visto tramontare il sole tante volte.

Ogni generazione ha i suoi particolari difetti.

One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Os homens daquela geração faziam questão em transmitir o que haviam compreendido da vida, sentiam que isso era importante. Creio que foram os últimos a pensar assim. A partir da geração do meu pai, mais ninguém achou que pudesse valer a pena transmitir algum ensinamento que fosse. Tornámo-nos todos demasiado cool, demasiado modernos. E além disso vivemos no terror do ridículo. Ninguém quer fazer de velho parvo.

Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n'y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d'hériter du sceptre et qui n'avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.

Au milieu de tous les changements, nous ne sommes pas entraînés à distinguer les choses qui restent les mêmes. Et c'est un grand problème parce que, quand on y pense, les choses qui ne changent pas sont presque toujours les plus importantes. »