We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than…

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

— M. H. Abrams

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

— Ian MacKaye

Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is…

— Maimonides

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is…

— William Peter Blatty

“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an…

— Henry H. Roth

“Permanence is an illusion.”

— Brian Rathbone

“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its…

— Susan Orlean

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of…

— Tryon Edwards

“ The illusion of permanence”

— I Ching

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.”

— Larry McMurtry

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda