Immutable Quotes
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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More Immutable Quotes
Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.
franz bardon— p. 27 (Initiation Into Hermetics (1956))
Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by "knowing" the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
stephen jay gould— "An Essay on a Pig Roast," p.437
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
pierre-simon laplace— p. 603. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
john kenneth galbraith— 1958 The Affluent Society.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
— 1945 Letter, 23 Jul.
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
john milton— 1665 Raphael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.524.
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course.
jacques-yves cousteau— The Silent World by Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Frederic Dumas 2004 National Geographic Society, pg. 5
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
ralph cudworth— Ch. 5, sct. 3
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
john kenneth galbraith— A Journey Through Economic Time (1994)
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
ernest hemingway— Letter (23 July 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Encyclopedias are like immutable cycloramas, prodigious projectors whose reels have got stuck and which show, with a kind of maniacal fixity, a landscape which, because it is condemned to be only and for all eternity what it was, will at the same time grow older more decrepit and more unnecessary. The encyclopedia purchased by Cipriano Algor's father is magnificent and as useless as a line of poetry we cannot quite remember.
josé saramago— The Cave p. 57 (Vintage 2003)
Princes may make laws and repeal them, but they can neither make nor destroy virtue, and how indeed should they be able to do what is impossible to the Deity himself? Virtue being as immutable in its nature as the divine will which is the ground of it.
ethan allen— Ch. IV Section II - Containing a Disquisition of the Law of Nature, as it respects the Moral System, interspersed with Observations on Subsequent Religions.
I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.
marc chagall— a letter to A. N. Benois, 1911, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 146
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 4, 1889)
It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.
Simone de Beauvoir— p. 81 (All Men are Mortal (1946))
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness…it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated… It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...
patrick pearse— The Cause Of Ireland, Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast 1994, pg 190.This quote was taken from the original, in Padraig Pearse’s book The Murder Machine.
Thompson and then his young men demolished a recurrent scientific myth one that had surfaced again in the 1870's: that there was nothing left to be discovered, nothing new under the sun. Part of the immutable wisdom of the day, endorsed and believed long before the greatest of scientists, Isaac Newton, was a kind of billiard ball theory of the atom, which went back to the ancient Greeks. The word itself is from the Greek atomos , meaning "inidivisible."
j. j. thomson— Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008)
According to the common system, before the creation of Matter, there was nothing but God, whose essence is immutable, and cannot be the pre-existent subject of Bodies.
— J. de la Crose (1693). Memoirs for the ingenious. p.81
I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.
— Marc Chagall, A letter to A. N. Benois, 1911, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 146
In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very centre of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.
— Horace Bushnell, p. 199. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The four divisions of human order were created by me according to differences in quality, activities, and aptitude; although the creator of this, know me as the non-doer being immutable.
— Krishna; Chapter 4, verse 13; as translated by Paramahamsa Nithyananda (2011) translation
I am not manifest to all, being veiled by yoga-maya and its delusion the world knows Me not, the unborn and immutable (BG 7.25).
— Sri Krishna speaks of its power in the Bhagavat Gita: quoted by Bansi Pandit, in p.119
Endless Perfections after all conspire,And to adore excite and to admire;But to plain Minds the Plainest Pow'r AboveIs Native Goodness to attract our Love;Centre of all Its various Pow'r and SkillIs One Divine, immutable Good Will.
john byrom— The True Grounds Of Eternal And Immutable Rectitude" St. 8.
By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman , Eternal and immutable , of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss .
— Swami Chinmayananda, in "Tarangini - X",P.40
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
judith butler— "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,
Barack Obama— Chicago Daily Herald (18 October 2004) [1]
