#discard

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#bleached #desert #discarded #eternal #eternal life

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. ↗

— Tom Ford

#artist #aware #because #creating #designer

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#advantage #aspects #carefully #change #detrimental

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#each #good #habit #make #might

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan Perlis

#anything #bubble #discarded #else #like

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. ↗

— Amy Irving

#exceptions #few #older #simply #than

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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