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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake
(1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950) Irish playwright
Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330
1940s and later
Variant: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Context: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.
“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”
William Faulkner
(1897–1962) American writer
