Succession Quotes - Page 6

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  Lactantius

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.21

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Life, Song, Firsts

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Beautiful, Lying, Want

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Flames

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.528, The Floating Press

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• My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Thinking, Soul And Body

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Law

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• Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

  Roman Jakobson

  Axes, Two

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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Empty, Timeless

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

  John Nelson Darby

  Grace, Apostolic

  John Nelson Darby (1866). “Analysis of dr. Newman's Apologia pro vitâ suâ, by J.N.D.”, p.20

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• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Opposites, Diversity

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Important, Goes On

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Important, Three

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Peace, Certitude

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.

  Thomas Sowell

  Years, People, Goal

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• True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Dependent, Suggesting

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• I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

  Richard Schmid

  People, Events, World

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• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Growing Up, Spring

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, Past, Age

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.3, Vintage

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• It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Order, Effort, Elements

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