For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
Interpretation
Time continuously evolves and necessitates new methods and representations to address emerging challenges.
Bertolt Brecht emphasizes the continuous flow of time and the need for adaptation. As circumstances evolve, so do the problems we face, requiring us to innovate and change our approaches. The quote suggests that while new ideas stem from existing ones, their emergence is crucial for progress and relevance in a changing reality.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about embracing change in the workplace.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.
That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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