Flux Quotes

114 Flux quotes by 91 unique authors

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion. — Clive Barker
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I… — C.S. Lewis
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. — Alan Watts
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,… — Alfred North Whitehead
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river — Heraclitus
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other… — David Hume
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… — Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of… — U.G. Krishnamurti
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. — George Will
The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a… — Swami Vivekananda
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and… — John Dewey
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. — James G. Frazer
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux. — Jeffrey Deitch
I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of… — Garrett Hedlund
Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux. — Frederick Lenz
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… — Tom Robbins
Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever. — Frederick Lenz
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… — Marcus Aurelius
I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter,… — Charles Lindbergh
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the… — Alfred North Whitehead
'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
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize… — D. H. Lawrence
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. — John Locke
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. — Camille Paglia

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