“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“I was born near the Po and it is the only respectable river in all Italy. To be respectable, a river must flow through a plain because water was created to stay horizontal and only when it is perfectly horizontal does it preserve its natural dignity. Niagara falls is an embarrassing phenomenon, like a man who walks on his hands.”
The Little World
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)
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Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
Duchamp's stated premise for his art-work: '3 Standard stoppages' he made during 1913 -1914; ; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 50
1915 - 1925
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter IV, Sec. 7
Alan Parsons (1948) audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England
"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
Quotes from songs
“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 12
Numbered fragments
“Living is a horizontal fall.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Opium (1929)
Variant: Life is a horizontal fall.
Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
River out of Eden (1995)
