“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)
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pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535Related quotes
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Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
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Bruce Lee
(1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
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Context: Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
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Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 2 at resologist.net
“I defy you all
To know twice as much as nothing at all
It's still nothing at all.”
Pete Doherty
(1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"A'Rebours"
Lyrics and poetry
“All entities move and nothing remains still.”
Heraclitus
(-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted by Plato in Cratylus, 401d
Charles de Lint
(1951) author
"Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 183