“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 209)
“The essence of things is eternal”
The Life of Pythagoras (1919)
Context: Fragment 4. This is the state of affairs about nature and harmony. The essence of things is eternal; it is a unique and divine nature, the knowledge of which does not belong to man. Still it would not not be possible that any of the things that are, and are known by us, should arrive to our knowledge, if this essence was not the internal foundation of the principles of which the world was founded, that is, of the finite and infinite elements. Now since these principles are not mutually similar, neither of similar nature, it would be impossible that the order of the world should have been formed by them, unless the harmony had intervened... the dissimilar things, which have neither a similar nature, nor an equivalent function, must be organized by the harmony, if they are to take their place in the connected totality of the world.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The essence of things is eternal" by Philolaus?
Philolaus 7
ancient greek philosopher -470–-390 BCRelated quotes
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933), Prologue
Sri Aurobindo
(1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
Context: The fundamental idea of all Indian religion is one common to the highest human thinking everywhere. The supreme truth of all that is is a Being or an existence beyond the mental and physical appearances we contact here. Beyond mind, life and body there is a Spirit and Self containing all that is finite and infinite, surpassing all that is relative, a supreme Absolute, originating and supporting all that is transient, a one Eternal. A one transcendent, universal, original and sempiternal Divinity or divine Essence, Consciousness, Force and Bliss is the fount and continent and inhabitant of things.
Soul, nature, life are only a manifestation or partial phenomenon of this self-aware Eternity and this conscious Eternal.
“Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.”
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
(1881–1919) German sculptor
As quoted in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 64
Margaret Fuller
(1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
Galileo Galilei
(1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
Variant translation: Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, because things came first, and their names subsequently.
Other quotes
Source: As quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
“There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility–-only eternal interests.”
Former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: The Innocent Pay the Price for the Incitement by the Preachers of Hatred, MEMRI, December 9, 2007 http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1656.htm,
Political friendships