Unchangeable Quotes - Page 2

• "Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.

  Roger E. Olson

  Reality, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Devil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin

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• Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Thinking, Rights

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• I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Light, Self

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• Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Women, Pride

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

  Edmund Burke

  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Today, Would Be, Useless

  Leonid Andreyev (1914). “Savva: The Life of Man : Two Plays ...”

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• With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Kings, Animal, Rights

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cities, Sea, People

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• For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Law, Long, Association

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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• It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Powerful, Surroundings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.380, Manonmani Publishers

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• Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.

  James Randi

  Real, Book, Atheism

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• Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.369

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• I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

  Frank Bruni

  Thinking, Political, Assuming

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this case - sensible, challenging topics that you are basically only half the expert you would have to be if you wanted to explain yourself in a trustworthy, intelligent and helpful manner.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Intelligent, Giving

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised,
  it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Realised

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• I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.

  Judith Butler

  Jobs, Sex, Vocabulary

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

  Stephen Charnock

  Littles, Moments, Eternity

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.287, Ravenio Books

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• There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Rome, Law

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• Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Ethical Principles, Two, People

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• If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Eye, Grace

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.272

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• There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Honesty, Ideas

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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