Kwasi Kwarteng Quotes

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.

The office is there, ready to be molded by the occupant. I don’t think the structure is ever anything permanent. What is gained by one president can be lost, voluntarily or not, by the next.

Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent or vital has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.