Transitory Quotes - Page 5

• All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3496, Manonmani Publishers

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• All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Reality, Men

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

  Richard Preston

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Happiness, Long, Relief

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• Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Life And Death, Taoism, Substance

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• The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. 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

  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

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• Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.

  John of Kronstadt

  Powerful, Mean, Pride

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• History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Historical, Essentials, Human Nature

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.66, Editions Le Mono

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• 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 call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Passion, Character

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• 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

  Art, Soul, Improvement

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .

  Paul Tillich

  Plato, Home, Men

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Law

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

  Jennifer Beals

  Taken, Trying, Calm

  "Jennifer Beals Shoots L Word Book, Is Perfect: The Autostraddle Interview". Interview with Jessica Rothschild, www.autostraddle.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Doe, Culture

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works”

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• It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Order, Perfection

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 102, 1964.

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• The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Real, War, People

  "Man, the State, and War". Book by Kenneth Waltz (Chapter IV "The Second Image", p. 98), 1959.

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• The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Independent, People, Atheism

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wrath, Intuition

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, Hands, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
  [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

  Sallust

  Riches, Virtue, Glory

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• All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

  Michael Drayton

  Mean, Titles, Birth

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• Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Men, Names

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.267

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• Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Panacea

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

  Winifred Holtby

  Happiness, Thinking, What Matters

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