Ephemeral Quote by Dee Hock

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of…

— Dee Hock

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

— Swami Vivekananda

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition…

— Giordano Bruno

There are two variations of contentment in life fleeting and enduring. The fleeting type is derived from instants of material comfort, while the enduring…

— Melchor Lim

Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of…

— Maimonides

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence…

— Gottfried Leibniz

...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity…

— Josef Pieper

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

— Alan Watts

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

— James Elkins

“Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.”

— Rafael Nadal John Carlin