Harvey C. Mansfield Quotes

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

There is nothing permanent except change.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

History is a fickle lady.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

Football is a changeable game. From one day to another, everything could change.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Nothing endures but change.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.