“They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
Steven Johnson
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
“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.”
Bertolt Brecht
“If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.”
Lionel Suggs
“The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.”
Alfred Tennyson
“I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations