Quotes About Change

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Civilization is paralysis.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Be the change that you want to see

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.