Denis Diderot Quotes on Change
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What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!
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If I had believed him, everything would have been turned upside down... all would have been turned topsy-turvy to make room for impractical theories.