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flux
«Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
| About:
Buddhism
| Keywords:
Buddhism, conservatism, flux, initiative, passively, swept, Swept Away
«Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, flux, intensely, mobile, precarious, relevance
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«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.»
«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 it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Blood and, blood relation, bones, design, dimension, elements, flux, fourth, fourth dimension, invent, recognition, relation, various
«Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
bestows, flux, hazardous, snatched, snatches
