Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Interpretation
Change is the only constant in life, reflecting the ongoing transformation of existence.
This quote emphasizes that everything in the universe is always in a state of change, highlighting the importance of embracing this flux as a fundamental aspect of existence. Ernst Haeckel suggests that the evolution of the world teaches us that both being and becoming are interconnected, urging us to recognize and accept the perpetual nature of change in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about adapting to life's challenges.
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,βa disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.
It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.
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Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.
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