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“Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.”

Giving Spirit Eternal Yoga Karma Attachment Selfless Karma Yoga Transitory Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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 .”

Men World Humans Ideas Soul Home Existence Teach Pure Essentials Eternal Essence Separation Realms Participation Plato Human Soul Transitory

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion

“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.]”

Virtue Eternal Glory Remains Riches Frail Transitory Gloria Clara

Author:Sallust

“A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.”

Dream Common Poet Eternal Lips Familiar Pursue Streams Theme Dreamer Gleam Transitory

Book:The Poems of William Watson

Source: The Poems of William Watson

“The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.”

Men Want Desire Eternal Assuming Usual Essays Filters Totality Reproach Transitory

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.”

Christian Time Asks Religious Eternal Finite Duration Transitory

Book:An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

Source: An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

“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 Half Elements Eternal Neglected Modernity Despised Transitory One Half Fugitive

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

Knows Passion Evil Dangerous Ignorance Eternal Transitory

Book:Les Miserables Volume Two

Source: Les Miserables Volume Two

“The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.”

Science Particular Eternal Aim Transitory

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.”

Ifs Men Made Christian Duty Demand Conflict Eternal Institutions Gods Will Customs Almighty Almighty God Transitory Precedence

Author:Martin Luther