Change
Any passage from one state to another, such as growth, motion, alteration, coming to be and passing away.
Works to read
- Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 CE
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, 1895
- Critias by Plato, c. 360 BC · Great Books
- On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous (Babylonian; standard version attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni), c. 2100-1200 BC
- Fragments by Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh by Usama ibn Munqidh, c. 1183
- Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell, 1830-1833
- The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate by Thomas Henry Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, 1860
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, 1924
- Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 1933
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, 1942
Passages
From the texts
Motion is one specifically when besides being one generically it also takes place in a species incapable of subdivision: e. g. colour has specific differences: therefore blackening and whitening differ specifically ; but at all events 1 every whitening will be specifically the same with every other whitening and every blackening with every 10 other blackening.
— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics
Verified quotations
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
— William Shakespeare, Sonnets
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