Quotes About Flux

all things live only if something else is cleared out of the path to make way. No death; no life. No exceptions. Things must come and go. People. Years. Ideas. Everything. The wheel turns, and the old is cleared away as fodder for the new.

Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.

Indeed, if ever you are asked to choose between fixists and mobilists, as the two sides were called during the plate-tectonics controversy—or between the stabilists and the dynamicists in the current Sirius debate—always choose the dynamicists. History is on your side.

Perhaps periodization makes it easier to remember that no matter how massively entrenched the order of things seems in your time, there is no chance at all that they are going to be the same as they are now after a century has passed, or even ten years.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Revolutions are infinite.

Life is a constant process of change with which views and values must keep up.

Change Is the Only Constant

It's common today to explain anything and everything as the result of climate change, but the truth is that earth's climate never rests. It is in constant flux. Every event in history occurred against the background of some climate change.

It's common today to explain anything and everything as the result of climate change, but the truth is that earth's climate never rests. It is in constant flux. Every event in history occurred against the background of some climate change. In particular, our planet has experienced numerous cycles of cooling and warming. During the last million years, there has been an ice age on average every 100,000 years. The last one ran from about 75,000 to 15,000 years ago.

We cannot be sure of the specifics; change itself is the only certainty.

Deliquescence.

we shift around on a seesaw moral continuum for our whole lives. Nobody stays the same!

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.

The star rigger's Flux: a higher-dimensional realm where reality and fantasy became strangely merged, where landscapes of the mind intersected with the real fabric of space, where space itself flowed and surged with movement—and where a rigger's skills could vault him across light-years, or send him spiraling to his death.

Renaissance" is not a good historical term, since it implies death and rebirth and great cataclysmic changes. There are few abysses or chasms in history; there are merely times when cultural change takes place more quickly and vigorously than at others.

He hungered for a sense of progress, of new things approaching while old familiar ones receded. It seemed far too long since he'd had that sensation.