{"quotes":[{"text":"We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought. There is no idea that does not carry in itself its possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["idea","novelty","thinking","truth"],"id":2745,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.","author":"R.A.Delmonico","tags":["chaos","novelty"],"id":5247,"author_id":"R.A.Delmonico"},{"text":"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["conformity","life","novelty","security"],"id":9770,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is new; they mistake now the for originality.","author":"Warren W. Wiersbe","tags":["history","insight","novelty","perspective"],"id":10308,"author_id":"Warren+W.+Wiersbe"},{"text":"Our brains resist change, they rail against it, our amygdala will always want the safe bet. But are the obstacles truly insurmountable? Is it a brick wall? Or is it a sliding door, which, once you decide to approach it, begins to swish open? Because even though our brains prefer safety in the short run, in the long run they crave meaning, challenge, and novelty.","author":"Barbara Bradley Hagerty","tags":["aging","brains","challenge","change","fear","meaning","midlife","novelty"],"id":21990,"author_id":"Barbara+Bradley+Hagerty"},{"text":"The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["love","novelty","poetry","wine"],"id":31934,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.","author":"Gregory C. Carlson","tags":["assumptions","biases","learning","novelty"],"id":33325,"author_id":"Gregory+C.+Carlson"},{"text":"Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.","author":"R.A.Delmonico","tags":["imagination","novelty"],"id":48180,"author_id":"R.A.Delmonico"},{"text":"There’s nothing new. The novelty lies in being yourself.","author":"Haresh Sippy","tags":["be-yourself","newness","novelty"],"id":50268,"author_id":"Haresh+Sippy"},{"text":"And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s simply true. Newness, or whatever you want to call it, becomes a very scarce commodity after thirty. I think that’s unfair. If I were in charge of the human life span, I’d make sure to budget newness much more selectively, to ration it out. As it is now, it’s almost used up in the first three years of life. By then you’ve seen for the first time, tasted for the first time, held something for the first time. Learned to walk, talk, go to the bathroom. What have you got to look forward to that can compare with that? Sure, there’s school. Making friends. Falling in love. Learning to drive. Sex. Learning to trade. That has to carry you for the next twenty-five years. But after that? What’s the new excitement? Mastering your home computer? Figuring out how to work CompuServe? “Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. 'Did you hear? The vice president in charge of overseas development just went a whole week without his diaper. We’re buying him a gift.' It’d be beautiful.","author":"Phoef Sutton","tags":["boredom","growing-old","newness","novelty","thirty-years-old"],"id":78496,"author_id":"Phoef+Sutton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}