Quotes About Continuity

there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

I always feel like every song is the last song.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life, and every life after that.

HereMeYouEternallyEnd

Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on its own.

newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh—" nothing new under the sun," providing the information that things just do recur).

repeated serial exposure.

10 year old books feel very aged, out of place, out of sync. 200 year old books feel contemporary. 2000 year old books feel fresh.

the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief;

The past never changes—and from what I can see, neither does the future.

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.

THE OLD GUARD AND THE NEW ORDER

I blend into Time.

There is continuity between humans and other animals in their emotional lives; there are transitional stages among species, not large gaps; and the differences among many animals are differences in degree rather than in kind

You can therefore think the thoughts of every sage, every artist, every financier, every captain of industry who ever existed, for thoughts never die.

The end is built into the beginning.