Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust,… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity. — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
