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- Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see… — Galileo Galilei
- ...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only… — Wilhelm Wundt
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
- Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren
- We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg
- The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of… — Meher Baba
- The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number,… — Sri Aurobindo