Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. Future Shock

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

You would say... inexperienced as I am, and ready to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow, I cannot afford to give up the sure ground of principle. ...and when you are further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would go on to assume a higher principle, and the best of the higher ones, until you found a resting place; but you would not refuse the principle and consequences in your reasoning like the Eristics—at least if you wanted to discover real existence. The Trials Of Socrates

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Thus Spoke Zarathustra