Top 100 Immutable Quotes
#1. A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.
Stephen Toulmin
#3. Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
Tom Chatfield
#4. think about the littler rules. Club rules. Social standards. Values. "The way things are normally done." Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths.
Johnny B. Truant
#5. Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
Georgi Plekhanov
#6. You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian."
"I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.
Neil Gaiman
#7. Rather than reflecting an immutable human nature, morals are closely tied to the way we organize ourselves.
Frans De Waal
#8. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
H.L. Mencken
#9. I am visible and immutable - carefully hidden behind a secret, secret. I
Anonymous
#10. When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
#11. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history.
Camille Flammarion
#12. His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#13. Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#14. Spinoza had argued that God, synonymous with nature, was immutable and eternal, leaving no room for chance. Agreeing with Spinoza, Einstein sought the invariant rules governing nature's mechanisms. He was absolutely determined to prove that the world was absolutely determined.
Paul Halpern
#15. Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.
Goswami Kriyananda
#16. I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
Anne Lamott
#17. He couldn't imagine such a moment, believed instead that Serena's beauty was like certain laws of math and physics, fixed and immutable
Ron Rash
#18. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
Amartya Sen
#20. Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
Tony Kushner
#21. No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable.
Julie Tetel Andresen
#22. But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.
Franz Kafka
#23. The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
August Bournonville
#24. Still earth shall only earth remain,
Let luck its course unfold,
And I in my own kingdom reign
Immutable and cold.
Mihai Eminescu
#25. Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Annie Dillard
#26. The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Patrick Henry
#27. It is the immutable law that the more you give away, the more you receive. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
Thomas S. Monson
#28. You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
Augustine Of Hippo
#29. No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
Barbara Goldsmith
#30. If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
Jeff Cooper
#31. Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.
David Allen
#32. Reality is perception perception change ... reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing
Dean Koontz
#33. 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
#34. Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.
Anne Rice
#36. People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.
John Medina
#37. When men seek after the Immutable, the Indeterminable, the Unmanifest, the All-Pervading, the Unthinkable, the Summit Self, the Immobile, the Permanent, - equal in mind to all,
intent on the good of all beings, it is to Me that they come.
Anonymous
#38. Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she'd had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent - like a scar or an immutable tattoo.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#39. The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
Thurgood Marshall
#40. A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery
Penelope Lively
#41. Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
Anton Chekhov
#42. Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
Margaret Deland
#43. Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.
Andrew Solomon
#44. All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves.
John Barth
#45. Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
Baruch Spinoza
#46. Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.
Valeria Luiselli
#47. Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
Maurice Druon
#48. There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.
Moss Hart
#49. In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#50. Death and life are the same thing. This is the immutable law of nature.
James Clavell
#51. I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
Alan Chambers
#52. Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.
Jon Krakauer
#53. Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#54. Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus
#55. Her [Gilberte's] face, grown almost ugly, reminded me then of those dreary beaches where the sea, ebbing far out, wearies one with its faint shimmering, everywhere the same, encircled by an immutable low horizon.
Marcel Proust
#56. Nature ... is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.
Galileo Galilei
#57. God is immutable - He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!
Elizabeth George
#58. History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#59. God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
Martin Luther
#60. It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#61. I'm not fond of immutable villains in stories. Most people try to do what they think is right or just, and that's what brings into this world the majority of its monsters.
R. Leib
#63. A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.
Kristin Hannah
#64. There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.
Jamie Le Fay
#65. All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
#66. Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
Karl Marx
#67. You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!
Robert Adams
#68. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
Kurt Loder
#70. One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
Stephen Kinzer
#71. Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.
Geena Rocero
#72. In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
Martin Luther
#73. Our liberal political and judicial systems are founded on the belief that every individual has a sacred inner nature, indivisible and immutable, which gives meaning to the world, and which is the source of all ethical and political authority.
Yuval Noah Harari
#74. Existence required order, and there was order; the laws of nature, irrevocable and immutable.
Tom Godwin
#75. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#76. That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.
Lauren Oliver
#77. Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.
Bob Hawke
#78. Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
Susan Sontag
#79. Indeed, Isaac Newton himself, who introduced the concept of immutable laws which guided the planets and stars without divine intervention, believed that the elegance of these laws pointed to the existence of God.
Michio Kaku
#80. Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.
Fethullah Gulen
#81. All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
Mark Twain
#82. When we are prey to our fears, we have to remember that we are giving power to that which does not exist. And remember that the only reality is Unconditional Love: the eternal, immutable state of Being.
Human Angels
#83. One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch.
Sue Grafton
#85. Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#87. Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
Bertrand Russell
#88. Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.
Mark Gatiss
#89. No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
Paul Keating
#90. The Creator, then, being uncreated, is also wholly immutable. And what could this be other than Deity?
John Damascene
#91. Four times in the false year the false season
Changed, in the immutable course
Of times's progression.
Dryness follows greenness, and greenness dryness,
And no one knows which is first, which
Is last, and they end.
Fernando Pessoa
#92. You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.
Anna Quindlen
#93. Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
Marcel Proust
#94. My best security is within the munitions of an immutable Jehovah, where His unalterable promises stand like giant walls of rock.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,
Luigi Pirandello
#96. In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#97. Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.
Mohsin Hamid
#98. I asked if he thought the ratio of good ones to scum was higher or lower than in society at large.
"It's the same," he said. "Of course." It was the same everywhere, he added: an immutable law.
Haruki Murakami
#99. What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.
Lionel Shriver
#100. Out of death, life; an immutable truth
Pat Frank
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