The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me, — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.” — Carolyn Chun Copy Share Image
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
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
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
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson 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
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — Terence McKenna 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
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
If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“The novelty of the new, as noted earlier, stems from the unfolding of the known into larger, brighter, more richly contoured surfaces.… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
