Quotes About Inertia

You can lose confidence when you're not in the rhythm.

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

L'unica cosa più dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi è essere rammentatori inerti.

Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities.

Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Alguien ha dicho que el polvo es la materia que no está en su sitio. La misma definición se aplica a las nueve décimas de los llamados perezosos.

The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.

It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed; it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.

For it is not inertia alone that makes human relationships so unspeakably monotonous and devoid of renewal in one case after another, it is the fear of any new, unforeseeable experience for which one does not feel prepared.

The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest

Physical inertia favors mental passivity and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

A nation has no conscience. How can it be aroused? A eunuch in bed with a doll is not disturbed.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

No reason. Because it's always been done that way. That's the standard explanation for anything.

The most dangerous enemy to Israels security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.