To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas KassamTags: happiness philosophy contentment self novelty monotony
A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em.
George EliotProgress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don’t really progress—they become primitive.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.Tags: technology novelty relativism
Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.Tags: worship doctrine novelty
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
Anthony MaraisTags: novelty
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTags: truth poetry genius novelty truths admission
And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s simply true. Newness, or whatever you want to call it, becomes a very scarce commodity after thirty. I think that’s unfair. If I were in charge of the human life span, I’d make sure to budget newness much more selectively, to ration it out. As it is now, it’s almost used up in the first three years of life. By then you’ve seen for the first time, tasted for the first time, held something for the first time. Learned to walk, talk, go to the bathroom. What have you got to look forward to that can compare with that? Sure, there’s school. Making friends. Falling in love. Learning to drive. Sex. Learning to trade. That has to carry you for the next twenty-five years. But after that? What’s the new excitement? Mastering your home computer? Figuring out how to work CompuServe? “Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. "Did you hear? The vice president in charge of overseas development just went a whole week without his diaper. We’re buying him a gift." It’d be beautiful.
Phoef SuttonTags: boredom novelty growing-old newness thirty-years-old
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
Anthony LiccioneTags: money contentment god security novelty changes shift advance conversion adjustment correct build transform bring refinement provide dollar develope instant-riches
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.
John Le CarréTags: curiosity gossip novelty
There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.
Evelyn WaughTags: novelty sophomoric
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