Perpetual Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

— George Eliot

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to…

— George Santayana

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we…

— Robert White

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

— Michel de Montaigne

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

— Michel de Montaigne

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,…

— John Quincy Adams

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out…

— Rudolf Rocker

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly…

— Diogenes Laertius

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he…

— Maximilian Kolbe

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier