Quotes About Continuity

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

Time doesn't die.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

The traditions evolve. Men's faith varies. God endures.

Das Wunderbare am Menschen ist, daß er wohl derselbe bleibt, aber nicht der gleiche.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

to put it differently, you are not always the same person, and you are less consistent over time than you think. But somewhat reassuringly, you are more similar to yourself yesterday than you are to another person today.

Stories within stories within stories. You never know where one ends and another begins! In truth, they all flow into one another. It's only in books that they're clearly divided.

You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That's not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.

Ser alguém é sentir-se parte de algo que não nasceu e nem vai morrer em si mesmo. É uma teia que nasceu muito antes de mim, e que deve permanecer para além de minha existência.

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

I realize I didn't write those books to describe a landscape, but to continue being part of it.

Today is the same as yesterday and tomorrow, but different.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Tradition, meaning, and relevance

The vast interplanetary and interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe, which the Creator has not seen fit to fill with the symbols of the manifold order of His kingdom. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full, that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space, or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.

The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry [into the age of the earth] is, that we find no vestige of a beginning—no prospect of an end.

Any culture that continues to influence our vision continues to grow in the very exercise of that influence.

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of the play, but in the course of play.

The death of an infinite player is dramatic. It does not mean that the game comes to an end with death; on the contrary, infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.