Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Change
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.