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“Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state of perpetual flux and self-contradiction, no kind of certitude will any longer be possible. [...] Truth is necessary and immutable; but in the sensible order nothing necessary or immutable is to be found; therefore sensible things will never yield us any truth.”

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“Divine impassibility is not some arbitrary invention, due to the quirkiness of theologians, but it points instead to the intensely mysterious character of God. Understanding even a little of such grandeur taxes our minds, and stretches our thinking, leading us to use language that Scripture itself uses- negative language, to say what God is not, and metaphorical language to portray the ways that God deals with us in creation and redemption, and stretched language to attempt to do justice to God's supreme eminence".”

Immutability Aseity Impassibility

Book:Confessing the Impassible God: The Biblical, Classical, & Confessional Doctrine of Divine Impassibility

Source: Confessing the Impassible God: The Biblical, Classical, & Confessional Doctrine of Divine Impassibility

“Entre rois, entre peuples, entre particuliers, le plus fort se done des droits sur le plus faible, et la même règle est suivie par les animaux, par la matière, par les èlèments, etc., de sorte que tout s'exècute dans l'univers par la violence; et cet ordre, que nous blâmons avec quelque apparance de justice, est la loi la plus gènèrale, la plus absolue, la plus immuable, et la plus ancienne de la nature.”

Nature Justice Violence Conflict Universal Law Immutability

Book:Réflexions et maximes

Source: Réflexions et maximes

“I seek heavenly steadfastness in earthly monotony.”

Stability Consistency Immutability

Book:North and South

Source: North and South

“It is divine simplicity that enables Christians to meaningfully confess that God is most absolute in his existence and attributes. adherents to this doctrine reason that of God were composed of parts in any sense he would be dependent upon those parts for his very being and thus the parts would be ontologically prior to him. If this were the case he would not be most absolute, that is, wholly self-sufficient and the first principle of all other things. Thus, only if God is "without parts" can he be "most absolute." God without parts, pg. 9-10”

Attributes Of God Immutability Divine Simplicity Theology Proper Aseity Of God

Author:James E. Dolezal

“A person who takes responsibility of his life believes in the immutability of laws that govern this world. When we fail to achieve our desired fruit, it is because we failed to sow the right seed in the right soil at the right time.”

Responsibility Fruit Seed Failed Govern Believes Immutability

Book:31 Ways to Happiness

Source: 31 Ways to Happiness

“This ground-plan, conceived by a great architect, exhibits a fundamental metaphysical dualism in Plato’s thought. [...] In politics, it is the opposition between the one collective, the state, which may attain perfection and autarchy, and the great mass of the people—the many individuals, the particular men who must remain imperfect and dependent, and whose particularity is to be suppressed for the sake of the unity of the state (see the next chapter). And this whole dualist philosophy, I believe, originated from the urgent wish to explain the contrast between the vision of an ideal society, and the hateful actual state of affairs in the social field—the contrast between a stable society, and a society in the process of revolution.”

Idealism Plato Social Change Conservatism Political Philosophy Authoritarianism Collectivism Platonism Immutability Autarchy

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato

“But mostly she likes the fact that there's a reason for every death, and only one murderer at a time, and things get figured out at the end, and the murderer always gets caught.”

Book:The Robber Bride

Source: The Robber Bride

“A hand pressed hard against her back. Or was it two? She couldn't remember. All she knew was that one minute, she was waiting restlessly to cross the street, the next she was sprawled in the road, dreading the oncoming car that would hit her any second now.”

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Book:Come Home to Death

Source: Come Home to Death

“Over the years more than one friend or acquaintance had asked Tricia why she was so enamored of the mystery genre. How could she actually enjoy stories that celebrated violent death? They had it all wrong. The books didn't celebrate death, but triumph for justice. Too often real-life villains got away with murder, but in fiction, justice was usually assured. Sometimes she wished life better imitated art.”

Justice Mystery Books

Book:Bookmarked for Death

Source: Bookmarked for Death

“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was greener over there")”