Quotes About Adaptation

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long...

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

A Caution to Everybody consider the Auk. Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk. Consider Man, who may well become extinct, Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked.

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long.

Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.

But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.

Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.

An image of an image, which is a perfect place to live if you want to be something other than what you once were.

It was what you did when you resurfaced after a year undercover: You hooked your wagon to the repetitions of domesticity.

Mis refugios más bellos,/ los lugares que se adaptan mejor a los colores últimos de mi alma, / están hechos de todo lo que los otros olvidaron.

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.

Perhaps one could get used to it? Learn to live with it, just as people live in the cities of Auschwitz or Hiroshima, without ever thinking about what happened there in the past. They simply live their lives.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

It did take Odysseus twenty years." "That doesn't matter," the professor replied merrily. "In today's day and age you could do it in two weeks.

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How will he get by in the desert without bowls and plates, without coal stoves, without carpets to lie down on with the little ones? Without his toilet, without the view from the window onto the square and the fountains with their crystal-clear water.

the point here was appropriation via antithesis.