Thoughts on shapechanging
- Kirok
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Thoughts on shapechanging
Where would be the correct place in the forum to ask that question? Hopefully I shall interact more in the future.
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Kirok of L'Stok
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Re: Thoughts on shapechanging
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Re: Thoughts on shapechanging
I imagine something like this has been written someone somewhere since writing began. Hericlitus being the earliest one I can think of with:“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.”
― Oscar Wilde
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man
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Re: Thoughts on shapechanging
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Take, for example, the observation that change is inevitable. Disraeli said it but the concept is not new, it has been postulated many famous minds. François de La Rochefoucauld said, “The only thing constant in life is change” but it goes all the way back to the original 'grumpy old man', Heraclitus of Ephesus, “the only thing that is constant is change.”
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Sources:
Disraeli - http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29768.html
Heraclitus - https://www.ancient.eu/Heraclitus_of_Ephesos/
I had this from Lao Tzu, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow" as well but Wikiquote says it is misattributed - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laozi
I went searching for the source of “The only thing constant in life is change” in de La Rochefoucauld's Maxim's but I can't find it even though it is often attributed to him. It could perhaps be a translation problem from the original French? There's nothing like it here...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9105
Perhaps it is in another work of his?
K
PS - Nice quote from Heractitus
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