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The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Insulted and the Injured (1861), Part III, Chapter 2 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1915)
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
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- Character
But that is the beginning of a new story⁠—the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Epilogue, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)
- Change
- Freedom
You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIn context
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892), A Scandal in BohemiaIn context
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
Peter Drucker1909–2005MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 44
- Change
Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 6
- Change
- Philosophy
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870Père, as quoted in Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground (2007) by Jennifer J. Deal, p. 9
The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization.
Will Durant1885–1981Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)
- Change
- History
There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylanborn 1941
Criticism is nothing more than other people’s opinion.
Clint Eastwoodborn 1930
A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), [O] : Introduction, 0.7
- Change
- Philosophy
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Virtue