Topic: “Change”

🔎 Lexicon containing “Change”

Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.

Becoming

The process of change or transformation in which something moves from one state to another; often contrasted with static being.

Power

The ability to act, effect change, or control outcomes or others.

Substance

That which exists independently and underlies properties or changes.

Hegelian Dialectic

A method of development and change through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegelian philosophy.

Accident

A non-essential attribute or property that can change without altering the substance or essence of a thing.

Change

The process through which something becomes different over time; transformation or transition.

Trade

To give one thing in exchange for another.

Magic

A concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion...

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💬 Quote Library — containing “Change”

It Takes Only One Independent and Effective Rational Mind

It takes only one independent and effective rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding for the rest of humankind.

from The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman

To Change Something, Build a New Model

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

You Could Not Step Twice into the Same River

You could not step twice into the same river.

from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato

Everything Changes and Nothing Stands Still

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato

Everything Flows and Nothing Stays

Everything flows and nothing stays.

from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato

To Understand Something, Try to Change It

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

from Problems of Theoretical Psychology by Kurt Lewin

📖 Excerpts Library

To Remove Man From the Centre of Things Was To Raise Him From His Low Estate

And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the...

Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

A Radical Change to Astronomy and Cosmology

The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...

Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science by Agustín Udías

The Heart of Revolutionary Faith, like Any Faith, Is Fire

The heart of revolutionary faith, like any faith, is fire: ordinary material transformed into extraordinary form, quantities of warmth suddenly changing the quality of substance. If we do not know what fire is, we know what it does. It burns....

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington

The Greatest Change in the Mind of Man Since the Dawn of Creation

It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty

Are You in an Incomprehensible Chaos

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute—and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to...

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand

Psychologically There Is a Great Difference

In fact most of Copernicus' book runs closely parallel with Ptolemy's exposition, only the minimum changes being made to adjust the treatment of the Sun-centered theory; and most of the numerical constants are simply Ptolemy's figures transformed. Not unnaturally, Copernicus...

Source: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus

It’s About Letting Go

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.

Source: Without Frontiers by Daryl Easlea

Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing Event

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

🎼 Song Excerpts

You Start to See the World a Little Differently

You start to see the world a little differently when you turn it upside down

I Look at the World, and I Notice It’s Turning

I look at the world, and I notice it's turning - While my guitar gently weeps

Just ’Round the Corner, There’s a Change in Design

I found out what it is that's been driving me mad - There's no room to breathe between the good and the bad - A crush in-between, there's a thin, thin line - But just 'round the corner, there's a change in design

I Don’t Need to Walk Around in Circles

I don't need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in

See No Evil in All Directions

See no evil in all directions

Can You Feel It? Now It’s Coming Back

Can you feel it? Now it's coming back We can steal it, if we bridge this gap

I Feel That Ice Is Slowly Melting

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting - Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

Round and Round the World We Go

Round and round the world we go - Back and forth in time - Always looking for the new sensation - Bigger and better every time

Using Words You Will Find Are Strange

Using words you will find are strange - Mesmerized as they light the flame - Feel the new wind of change

I Hope to Hell It’s Gonna Change Me

I couldn't tell you if it's gonna change the world, but I hope to hell it's gonna change me

But the World Keeps Turnin’ ’Round

World goes round, life goes on and on and on - You say it's over, but the world keeps turnin' 'round

Now My Old World Is Gone for Dead

And I can't get it out of my head - No, I can't get it out of my head - Now my old world is gone for dead, 'cause I can't get it out of my head

Desperate for Changing, Starving for Truth

Desperate for changing, starving for truth - I'm closer to where I started - I'm chasing after you

It’s Time to Begin, Isn’t It?

It's time to begin, isn't it?

Simply Look Around and View It

If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it - Anything you want to, do it - Want to change the world? There's nothing to it

But the World Still Goes Around and Round

Nothin' comes from talkers but sound - We can talk all we want to, but the world still goes around and round

The Things I’ve Learned from a Broken Mirror

The things I've learned from a broken mirror - How a face can change when a heart knows fear

Welcome to the New Age

Welcome to the new age, to the new age - Welcome to the new age, to the new age

The Horizon Has Been Defeated by the Pirates of the New Age

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age

And the World Keeps Spinning ’Round

And the world keeps spinning 'round - But my world's upside down, and I wouldn't change a thing

I’m Waking Up, I Feel It in My Bones

I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones - Enough to make my system blow

Your World Just Spins Whilst Mine Stands Still

Your world just spins whilst mine stands still - Nothing's changed in your gravity grave

Things Have Been Dark for Too Long

I'm standing here on the ground - The sky above won't fall down - See no evil in all directions - Resolution of happiness - Things have been dark for too long

Just a Voice Like a Riot Rocking Every Revision

This is not the end, this is not the beginning - Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision

All the Things That I Used To Know Have Gone out the Window

All the things that I used to say All the words that got in the way All the things that I used to know Have gone out the window

Another Way To Make the World Go ’Round

We've got to find another way to make the world go 'round

And Our Lives Are Forever Changed

And our lives are forever changed, we will never be the same - The more you change the less you feel

Research and Find Out the Root of the Truth That You Seek Of

The Earth was flat, if you went too far, you would fall off - Now the Earth is round, if the shape change again, everybody woulda start laugh - The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of - And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of