Quotes About Continuity

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

Really, once the worst happens, it's always happening. It's never not happening.

Changes can be looked at from the perspective of discontinuity or from the perspective of continuity. If we focus on the greatest ruptures of discontinuity, we can speak of physical, psychological, or spiritual "death." If we turn our attention to their aspects of complementary continuity, we can also speak of "rebirth.

de opeenvolging der generaties: een reeks die zich in het duister van de tijd verliest, ouders, kinderen, kleinkinderen, tot in het oneindige bezig elkaar de last door te geven die ieder van de voorgangers heeft ontvangen, vermeerderd met eigen onlust, soms door individuele werkzaamheid in gewicht verminderd. Wij kunnen onze kinderen geen grotere dienst bewijzen dan door onze bagage op vodden en oud roest te sorteren'.

For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.

I couldn't for the life of me understand why I should stop communicating with old friends just because they were dead.

Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.

For Paul, praying is like breathing. It cannot be interrupted without mortal danger.

Is not this the broad earth still?

For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.

He had none of that wish to appear deep which is at the bottom of most forms of fatuity; he was perfectly willing to pass for decently superficial; he only aspired to be continuous. When you were not suitably shallow this presented difficulties; but he would have assented to the proposition that you must be as suitable as you can and that a high use of subtlety is in consuming the smoke of your inner fire. THE FIRE WAS THE GREAT THING, NOT THE CHIMNEY.

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.