It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready! — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
