Emory R. FrieEverything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse.
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The phrase “Everything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse,” has been attributed to a number of different people and in numerous different contexts. It has been attributed to many people throughout history, including: - Abraham Lincoln - "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it." - Benjamin Franklin - "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Mark Twain - "He who can no longer pause for another's happiness, let him do it at his peril." - Benjamin Disraeli - "There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come." - Thomas Edison - "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "All that is done must end; all that is done will end; all things move toward an end; all things change; Nature abhors a vacuum; the eternal cycle goes on; the pendulum swings; the world never was, nor ever will be quite as it now seems." The most likely origin of this quote is from Aristotle’s Poetics.
In the Poetics, Aristotle wrote about his theory of catharsis. He argued that catharsis is achieved when an audience sees the flaws in characters they identified with. The audience then identifies with characters who are more admirable than they themselves were.
This identification drives them away from their former misbehavior. Aristotle believed that seeing these flaws in characters would be cathartic for the audience. For him, seeing these flaws in characters would be a source of shame for them if they saw them in themselves.
Although Aristotle used the word katharsis in his Poetics he actually meant something very different by it. He meant something closer to purgation or cleansing rather than catharsis.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharsis)
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