Change

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Revolution begins with individual action, with one person's transformation.

The novel is driven by the myth, but the myth is a dead language. The novel is a new language, speaking of the present.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.

Problems are not always solvable, but the capacities we have for dealing with them can be real, even though they are different from what philosophers or theologians have imagined.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; that is, by people relating to one another differently.

Revolution is the awakening, the day after the great sleep has lasted too long.

The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.