24 Aug Principle Quotations Relating to the Great Idea of Change
Principle Quotations Relating to the Great Idea of Change in Introduction to the Humanities which is a Best Seller on Kobo!
“Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance…”
– George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
“(Motion) is nothing more than the action by which any body passes from one place to another.”
– Rene Descartes
“Reality is mobility…only changing states exist. Rest is never more than apparent, or, rather, relative.”
– Henri Bergson
“Energy may be called the fundamental cause for all change in the world.”
– Heraclitus”
“When the change from contrary to contrary is in quantity, it is ‘growth and diminution’; when it is in place, it is ‘motion’; when it is…in quality, it is ‘alteration’; but when nothing persists of which the resultant is a property (or an ‘accident’ in any sense of the term), it is ‘coming to be,’ and the converse change is ‘passing away.’’
– Aristotle
“Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
“(Eternal)…what never had birth, nor will ever have an end… (is best understood as that) which time never brings any change.”
– Montaigne
“In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.”
– “Genesis,” The Holy Bible
“(Change is not change) except according to our way of understanding. For change means that the same thing should be different now from what it was previously…But in creation, by which the whole substance of a thing is produced, the same thing can be taken as different now and before, only according to our way of understanding, so that a thing is understood as first not existing at all, and afterwards as existing.”
– Thomas Aquinas”
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