If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need… — Arin Paul Copy Share Image
For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen,… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“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… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways… — Gene Edward Veith Copy Share Image
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
