It seems to be a law of nature inflexible and inexorable that those who will not risk cannot win.
Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.
In the end nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and sooner or later it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws it doesn't know art just as it doesn't know freedom just as it doesn't know goodness.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.