Quotes of: Inertia Keyword

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Metaphysics: Concept and Problems

Life Without Work To do nothing In this day and age, When so much pointless work Is being produced, Could almost be considered an achievement. It all compares most unfavorably With my own imaginary Body of work.

The Inertia Variations

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly acti...

John Kenneth Galbraith

IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse...

The Inertia Variations

VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surveying behind me a wasteland Of dried-up promise. While the lights below twinkle With dull mocking uncertainty. There isn't much left to look forward to, And the looking fo...

The Inertia Variations

RIVETING TORPOR It is remarkable how far I am prepared to go In order to avoid doing the one thing that might Provide satisfaction, and it is remarkable to consider What I will do instead of it, purely for the pleasure Of being dissatisfied. When it ...

The Inertia Variations

Patronage of Negation I am constantly confronted by other people’s works That I could have created myself. And I am constantly disappointed by them. Sadly, I have to recognize them For what they are: inferior versions Of what I could have done If I...

The Inertia Variations

We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that work...

Love

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that a strange medication had been given him that enabled my brother to become even more of an enigma than he was before, and as a result of that there cam...

Justin Dobbs

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Henri Bergson

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Maurice Strong

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

Nana Awere Damoah

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Michael Burgess

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Certain Girls

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

The Alloy of Law

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Todd Gitlin

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

Kevin Kelly

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

The Last Titan