Novelty Quotes - Page 4

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.