Quotes About Immutable

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

For a protest movement to arise out of traumas of daily life, the social arrangements that are ordinarily perceived as just and immutable must come to seem both unjust and mutable.

But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.

But all remains unchanged.

Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

La verdad, para Platón, no está en las sensaciones, siempre cambiantes y muchas veces contrarias de un individuo a otro. La verdad reside, eterna e inmutable, en el mundo de las ideas, donde los filósofos pueden contemplar las formas verdaderas. La labor del filósofo consiste, por lo tanto, en transformar la sociedad conforme a este modelo ideal.

Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow

I can see, I can see that it is in this distorted vision of the world's proper proportions that lies the secret of our fears. We make the animals bigger with our fears. We make our creations and our loves smaller, we shrink by our vision, and enlarge and shrink according to the whims of our interchangeable vision, not according to an immutable law of growth. The size of each world we live in is individual and relative, and the objects and people vary in each EYE.

Some things never change.

Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

By wordless edict; having none to bid, None to forbid; for this is past all gods Immutable, unspeakable, supreme, A Power which builds, unbuilds and builds again,

Is there anything that will not decay?

Fundamental truth is unyielding, like a mountain.

The words of men pass away when they have been conceived and uttered, but the Word of God is eternally uttered and can never cease from utterance.

La Sagrada Escritura y la naturaleza proceden ambas del Verbo Divino, pero en tanto que la palabra de Dios ha debido adaptarse al limitado entendimiento de los hombres a los cuales se dirigía, la naturaleza es inexorable e inmutable y que no se cuida de sus recónditas razones sea o no comprendidas por los hombres.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.

37. If you've seen the present, then you've seen everything -- as it's been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.

Even God cannot change the past.