Quotes About Flux

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs

It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply ... not

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

In life everything is continually in flux.

Perpetual novelty is the hallmark of 'cas'.

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let's take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

Histories themselves become history before they reach the shelves.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

There can occur in lives a subsidence under the soil, so that, without the surface having been visibly broken, gradients alter, uprights cant a little out of the straight.

You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold.

Instead of stability, Heraclitus said, there is only change: ceaseless, relentless, and without end. In the desperate watercourse of existence, any notion we have of permanent or fixed values, even of our own body, is pure illusion. Instead, everywhere we look, everything we see is in constant flux and change.

Reality turns out to have a dual nature. Yes, Socrates said, the world is one of constant change and flux: as Heraclitus said, that's the visible world around us. In Socrates's and Plato's terms, it's the world of Becoming. But there is also a realm of Permanence that Parmenides described, a higher reality that we grasp not through our senses, but through our reason alone. This is the world

Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement. (The world has no age. Humanity simply changes place.)

History is always changing.

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.