As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr. , Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses. ]
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.
The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly. . . timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.