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“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”

Needs Reason Past Law Struggle Eternal Constancy

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.”

Years Helping Home Age Past Eternal Shelter Blast Stormy

Author:Isaac Watts

“Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.”

Mind Age Past Poor Century Eternal Fallen Temples Grants Pants Altars Melting Stumbling Mirages Refreshments

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.”

Real Moments Reality Past Eternal Duality

Author:Wei Wu Wei

“No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.”

Men Should Made Matter Past Law Natural Greater Creation Return Eternal All Things Claims Rhythm Decline Stem Empowered Natural Law

Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

“We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.”

Way May Moments Might Past Realizing Eternal Series Present Moment

Author:John Ashbery

“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.”

Seems Past Memories Steps Grace Youth Eternal Add Preserves Every Step Past Memories Eternal Youth

Author:Madame de Stael

“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”

Past Religion Order Silence Eternal Males Dreary

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.”

Humans Long Doe Shows Action Earth Past Gone Eternal Shore Bark Acres Tombstone Reefs

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!”

Ifs Wells Enough Care Past Used Worry Streets Bears Creatures Eternal Rage Anxious Perpetual Locks Wickedness Malice What Is The Meaning

Book:The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

“If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.”

Ifs Want Mind Moments Past Eternal Forty Present Moment Illumination

Author:Elif Safak

“The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.”

Past Spirit Cry Judgment Eternal Storm Rage Lust Punishment Almighty Blast Lament

Book:Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition

Source: Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition