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“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

“Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.”

Said Prayer Modern Eternal Busy Newspapers Daily Life Replaced Bourgeois Ephemeral All That Remains

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Should Age Dies Strange Poet Eternal Ordinary Privilege Thank God Ugliness Mystic Ephemeral

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.”

Years Has Beens Art Two Beautiful Form Law Quality Principles Clear Fashion Months Six Eternal Art Is Hundred Dresses Rational Folly Six Months Ugliness Unbearable In-laws Ephemeral

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”

Past Pleasure Behinds Wonder Eternal Spring Infinite Delight Unexpected Superficial Finite Ephemeral Unexplored Mutability

Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.”

Men Should Mind Pain Emotion Imagine Planets Eternal Strive Absurd Sincere Insignificant Ephemeral Jest

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.”

Eternal Ephemeral

Book:My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings

Source: My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings

“...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.”

Looks Bigs Eye Girl Games Eternal Ephemeral Rigged

Author:Milan Kundera

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung