#phil

As individuals express their life, so they are. ↗

— Karl Marx

#philosophy #life

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time. ↗

— David E. Wilkins

#philosophy #supreme-court #change

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#literature #philosophy-of-life #change

My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. ↗

— Derek Parfit

#change

A mind is like an umbrella - only useful when open. ↗

— A work colleague

#philosophical #work #education

The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world. ↗

— Matthew A. Petti

#book-of-revelation #great-pyramid #greek-gods #religion-and-science #religion-christianity

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information. ↗

— Heather Graham

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…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political conditions, and finally, that it is vain to hope to find an eternal, fixed, and immutable system of philosophy, and still hope for progress. A fixed system is applicable only to a dead society. ↗

— Holly Estil Cunningham

#philosophy #society #change

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream. ↗

— Mark Cantrell

#science-fiction #virtual-reality #change

Murakami: Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - T believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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