Quotes About Continuum

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other? The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

It's kind of a continuum…We used to think that they were two totally different things, and now we know that there's a gray area in between…

In addition, the Greek division of human life into "mind," "body," "emotions," "psyche," and "spirit" underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic languages do not divide reality in this way. They provide multiple words for the subconscious self, all tied to the communal self. They imply a continuum between what we call spirit and body, not a division. We

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.

Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.

So far Trump has proved to be one of the rare presidents who has attempted to do what he said he would. He has also not acted much differently in 2017–18 than he said he would during 2015–16. That continuum is why his critics understandably fear him, and why his hard-core supporters often seem to relish their terror.

Death is the only true ending. Everything else falls, to varying degrees, along a continuum of choice.

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.

Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Time is the fabric that makes space possible.

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)

Blood vessels, from aorta to capillaries, form another kind of continuum. They branch and divide and branch again until they become so narrow that blood cells are forced to slide through single file. The nature of their branching is fractal.

but there are certain truths you keep inside you and do not defend lest you cheapen and then lose them altogether. Those truths have less to do with the dead than the awareness that we are no different from them, and there is no afterlife but only one life, a continuum in which all time occurs at once, like a dream inside the mind of God.

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one's ideological biases wish to see.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Having these negative imprints on my mental continuum is unbearable. "It's as if I've swallowed a lethal poison. I must practice the antidote right away and purify all this negative karma immediately, without a second's delay." In this way, generate strong feelings of urgency and regret.

We may have just slipped through some kind of white-trash worm-hole in the time-space continuum.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

He stepped forward and grasped the staircase's railing, looked up at her earnestly. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? 'He doesn't mean the war,' she thought. 'He's talking about all of it - our lives and history and Shakespear. And the continuum. She smiled down at him. A comedy, my lord.

The past and the future are both part of a single continuum

For peer review, replication, and objectivity to make any headway on the continuum, for science to find the right answers to anything, there have to be wrong - or at least unlikely - answers.