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  • All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

    Beauty   Justice   Doe  
  • A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

    Golf   Space   House  
    Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
  • 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 (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com
  • Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

    Art   Light   Serenity  
  • I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

  • Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

    People   Riches   Lord  
  • The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

    Past   Stones   Today  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series”, p.160, Hachette UK
  • He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

    Time   Faces   Saws  
    Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International
  • The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

    Yoga   Self   Ideas  
  • Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • 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 .

    Plato   Home   Men  
    Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”
  • 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 only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

  • They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

    "The Obliging Order: William F. Buckley’s War on Totalitarianism and Blandness" by Thomas F. Bertonneau, www.firstprinciplesjournal.com. Fall 2008.
  • [The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

    Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics
  • That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.286, University of Georgia Press
  • I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

    Transition   Pace   Way  
    Source: www.askmen.com
  • 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 by action or inaction.

    Yoga   Body   Action  
  • Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

    "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Morning Service: Preliminaries (p. 28),
  • Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  • Everything transitory is but an image.

  • Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

    World   Loan   Indolence  
  • 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.

    Men   Order   Perfection  
    "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 102, 1964.
  • The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.

    People   Soul   Atheism  
    Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.311, Cambridge University Press
  • 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, is the Self.

    Yoga   Self   Eternity  
  • When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

    Eye   Men   Sight  
    Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs
  • It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

    Heart   Long   Rose  
  • Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

    Art   Elements   Half  
  • The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

    Life   Dream   Believe  
    "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.
  • 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.]

    Riches   Virtue   Glory  
  • Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

    World   Glory   Vain  
    "The Life and Poems of William Dunbar".
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