Quotes About Continuity

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

vivimos en una época de re-ciclaje en la que nada parece morir del todo, de la misma forma que nada, ni siquiera la vida eterna, parece destinado a durar para siempre.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

The most important thing is that The Chain itself continues. Some of the people on it will be richer than others, but more crucial than their wealth is the fact that they have to be clever and discreet enough to add another link and keep the whole thing going. Each individual link in The Chain is precious.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

La storia è il commento alle varie e continue incapacità degli uomini.

a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a final one.

In a world where time cannot be measured, there are no clocks, no calendars, no definite appointments. Events are triggered by other events, not by time.

Things have their forms not only in space, but also in time.

Perhaps the entire over-engineered concept of endless rebirth only recapitulates the much smaller, simpler idea that nothing material is destroyed – we already know that the matter of our bodies is reincarnated endlessly in both organic and inorganic form. We have continuity with everything that our bodies will ever be or have already been, shit and stars alike. How

Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.

So it has been before. So it will be again.

nothing in this world is spontaneous. Everything is a reaction to the past. Shantanu

The trouble with life is that incidents so often merely follow each other rather than grow out of each other ...

Their talking was like a river, always flowing, delirious with movement. It was oblivious to their physical separation and continued within, so that their coming back together was merely an increase in volume.

The only thing she could be certain of was that each day forward would carry the past