Quotes About Flux

Un mondo è un pullulare continuo e irrequieto di cose, un venire alla luce e uno sparire continuo di effimere entità

The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming.

This life is not the same as your other life.

You have dizzying change where there's no progress.

for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

One war ends, another begins.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.

It's typical at Real Madrid that we often seem to be going through a revolution.

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

Europe had come out of the fourteenth century pandemic as a world in flux. In this milieu, it was possible to think the unthinkable. It's hardly accidental that in the wake of the Black Death, movements swelled up to translate the Bible into languages people actually spoke. Many wanted to see for themselves what the scriptures said because it kind of looked like maybe, perhaps, just maybe—here's the unthinkable part: maybe the church had gotten something wrong.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

As George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium. It is the framework of cognition. Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework. Hence, the study of the evolution of language is the study of the evolution of the human mind itself.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

For one change always leaves the toothing for another.