Transitory Quotes

120 quotes by 94 authors

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not… — George Carey
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not… — Anthony the Great
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. — William Dunbar
But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory,… — Eldridge Cleaver
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins… — Victor Davis Hanson
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of… — Frederick Lenz
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the… — Maximus the Confessor
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir… — Arthur Balfour
Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and… — Frederick Lenz
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. — Frederick Salomon Perls
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every… — Mary Livermore
What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and… — Thomas of Villanova
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity,… — Frederick Lenz
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected… — Frederick Lenz

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