Flux Quotes - Page 2

• 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

  William James

  Reflection, Names, Categories

  William James (2015). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• La belleza es nuestra arma contra la naturaleza; con ella creamos objetos, les damos límite, simetría, proporción. La belleza detiene y congela el flujo fundente de la naturaleza.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Nature, Giving

  Publicación en FaceBook de Camille Paglia del 13 de nov de 2013.

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• We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Insecure, Safe

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• Todo es flujo; nada permanece quieto.

  Heráclito

  Life, Change, Growth

  Quoted in Plato, Cratylus

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• Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Gratitude, Grease

  Natalie Goldberg (2014). “The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rivers, Looks, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

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• Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

  Simon Winchester

  Kansas, Earth, States

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• Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Matter, Causes, Scene

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). "Las Meditaciones de Marcus Aurelius", p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• The history of the cosmos
  is the history of the struggle of becoming.
  When the dim flux of unformed life
  struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
  and broke at last into light and dark
  came into existence as light,
  came into existence as cold shadow
  then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Struggle, Dark

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Discipline, Curiosity

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Past, Joy

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• ¿Quién comprende entonces el flujo y reflujo recíprocos de lo infinitamente grande y lo infinitamente pequeño, el eco de las causas en los abismos del ser y las avalanchas de la creación?

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Understanding, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (1994). "Los Miserables Volumen Dos", p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.

  John Jacob Abel

  Science, Animal, Atoms

  John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”

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• The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Real, Mind, Perception

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• The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Reality, Expectations, Trouble

  "The Good Society". Book by Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, Steven M. Tipton, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler (Chapter 1), 1991.

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• Ninguna civilización habría sido posible sin un marco de estabilidad que sirviera de base para el flujo del cambio. Entre los factores estabilizadores, más duraderos que las costumbres, los modales y las tradiciones, destacan los sistemas jurídicos que regulan nuestra vida en el mundo y nuestras relaciones cotidianas.

  Hannah Arendt

  Vida, Derecho, Civilización

  Hannah Arendt (1972). "Crisis de la República: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution", p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El amor nos confunde fácilmente porque siempre está en flujo entre la ilusión y la sustancia, entre el recuerdo y el deseo, entre la satisfacción y la necesidad.

  Tom Robbins

  Recuerdos, Deseo, Satisfacción

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", p.344, Bantam.

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I'm very lucky to have worked in the '70s. It's a different industry and distribution is in a state of flux. It's all different platforms, they're doing this video-on-demand thing and also playing the film theatrically. It's funny to me: In the States it's an arthouse movie.

  John Landis

  Different, Lucky, Video

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Nada es constante salvo el cambio. Toda existencia es un flujo perpetuo de "ser y devenir". Ésa es la gran lección de la evolución del mundo.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Vida, Cambio, Ciencia

  Ernst Haeckel (1904). "Maravillas de la vida"

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• The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Espiritual, Hombres, Yo

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• Si las mentes dependen totalmente de los cerebros y los cerebros de la bioquímica, y la bioquímica (a largo plazo) del flujo sin sentido de los átomos, no puedo entender cómo el pensamiento de esas mentes debería tener más importancia que el sonido del viento en los árboles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Correr, Debería, Viento

  C. S. Lewis (2003). "Una mente despierta: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis", p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• Puedo aventurarme a afirmar que el resto de la humanidad no es más que un manojo o colección de percepciones diferentes, que se suceden con una rapidez inconcebible y están en perpetuo flujo y movimiento.

  David Hume

  Percepción, Diferente, Movimiento

  David Hume, Thom Chittom (2004). "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature", p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

  Heráclito

  Rivers, All Things, Opposition

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