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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934), p. 32 (1981 edition)
We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.
Ernst Jünger1895–1998The Glass Bees (1957)
- Change
- Character
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Metamorphosis (1915), First lines
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller1880–1968
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963A Strategy of Peace (1963)
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Second State of the Union Address
So let us begin anew⁠—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (25 June 1963)
- Change
- Time
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address, University of Cape Town (6 June 1966)
- Change
- History
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968The Opening to the Future Adress at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California (June 8, 1964)
- Change
- History
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969On the Road (1957), Part Two, Ch. 8
- Change
- Life & Death
I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001As quoted in Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 1: “Black Shiny FBI Shoes”
Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 166
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4: Love in action, Sct. 3