Quotes About Continuity

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We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

No sooner are some false prophets put down than others pop up in all directions.

Christmas succeeds Christmas rather than the days it follows.

There is no gap between us and the process.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

Friendship cant end just because you change your life.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.