Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
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Flux
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
Barack Obama
Politician
"The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux."
Stephen King
Author
"Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux."
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"Everything is in flux."
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"All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river"
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"All is flux, nothing is stationary."
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