“Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.” ChildrenFallGrowthFreedomPossibilityParticularDevelopmentHighestFavorsFixedUnfree Book:Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order
“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?” WorldWayEndsMatterMovingOrderFallStarsSunPlanetsEmptyAriseVainFixedHinderDenseCometsOrbs Author:Isaac Newton
“Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.” FirstsMayLightFallStarsEffectsPlanetsThirdsAll TimeFixedDividedDurationMomentaryAuthorshipUnchangeable Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.” IfsWorldShouldIdeasDesireFallAttentionAngelPaidReleaseFixed Author:Angelina Love
“The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.” KnowsFallWindFruitBlowEsteemFixedRipeTransienceRipe Fruit Book:Essays, lectures and orations Source: Essays, lectures and orations