“Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
Ideology and Utopia (1929)
Context: It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically.
The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms (1889)
“No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.”
Cork address (1885)
“There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master.”
Records of the Grand Historian
Source: Translated by Burton Watson. Shiji 129: The Biographies of the Money-makers.
“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
Variant: Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 244.
