Quotes About Flux

That's what life is about: People come and go.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We are always permeable, shifting. We are all only one strange leap away from becoming inconceivable to our former selves.

Lo que indefinida y vertiginosamente cambia no tiene consistencia ni realidad, es tránsito perpetuo, y no sustancia.

Au milieu de tous les changements, nous ne sommes pas entraînés à distinguer les choses qui restent les mêmes. Et c'est un grand problème parce que, quand on y pense, les choses qui ne changent pas sont presque toujours les plus importantes. »

always in the familiar land of the temporary

moment ago seemed

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.

chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Wikipedia features a popular article called "Errors in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia." This article is, of course, always in flux. All Wikipedia is. At any moment the reader is catching a version of truth on the wing.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

The only permanence is change

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

There is nothing so stable as change.