Quotes About Flux

The past is not necessarily what it was, even though it has already been. The present is chaotic and indeterminate. The ground shifts continually around her feet, and ours. Equally, the future, not yet here, changes into something it was not supposed to be.

The permanent is ebbing. Is leaving nothing in the way of trails, they are blown over, grasses shoot up, life disturbing life…

Nada de lo que el hombre ha sido, es o será, lo ha sido, lo es ni lo será de una vez para siempre, sino que ha llegado a serlo un buen día y otro buen día dejará de serlo.

nada es fijo ni permanece inmóvil en el trémulo corazón del hombre.

There's no normal. Not anymore.

Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.

It is a mark of great spiritual laziness to take the world we inherit as a given. It is constantly in flux, and it is our own projective mind that creates it. A true visionary sees society itself as a shared projection, a kind of hologram we are all cocreating with no permanent basis, one that can always be reimagined based on the shifting views of human nature that we hold.

Falling asleep. Waking up.

When it comes to communication, things never change and yet things are always changing.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.

If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

So wie es ist, bleibt es nicht.

In every life there are pauses and interruptions... points of time where one course of action ends and another begins; and by vicissitude of fortune, or alteration of employment, by change of place or loss of friendship, we are forced to say of something, this is the last .

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. It's not a neat hard cut, but a blurred, irregular dissolve. These moments are the seams in existence through which we can get a glimpse of the deeper, fundamentally random, chance workings of a system in which we are only a small, insignificant player.

We assimilate a little this way, and a little that way. Life is only mutation.

In his journal, Emerson wrote: "Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis….We dive & reappear in new places.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.