“This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther”
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“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”
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“Everything changes and nothing stands still.”
Heraclitus
(-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted by Plato in Cratylus, 402a
Variants and variant translations:
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Everything flows and nothing abides.
Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Everything flows; nothing remains.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
All is flux, nothing stays still.
All flows, nothing stays.
Πάντα ῥεῖ
Everything flows.
This statement occurs in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, 1313.11; while some sources attribute to Simplicius the coining of the specific phrase "πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei)", meaning "everything flows/is in a state of flux", to characterize the concept in the philosophy of Heraclitus, the essential phrasing "everything changes" and variations on it, in contexts where Heraclitus's thought is being alluded to, was current in both Plato and Aristotle's writings.
Evelyn Waugh
(1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
René Descartes
(1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
John Maynard Keynes
(1883–1946) British economist
On the Cambridge Apostles of Cambridge University, in Essays in Biography (1933) Ch. 39; also later used in My Early Beliefs, a memoir he read to the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club in 1943.
