Certainty Quote by Sten Nadolny

“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.”

— Sten Nadolny

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter,…

— Zhuangzi

“In everything that was to follow, everyone claimed to have insight into what the Prophet thought and what he wanted. Yet in the lack…

— Anonymous

“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is…

— William Peter Blatty

“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an…

— Henry H. Roth

“Permanence is an illusion.”

— Brian Rathbone

“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its…

— Susan Orlean

Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is…

— Maimonides

“ The illusion of permanence”

— I Ching

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.”

— Larry McMurtry

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton