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“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.”

Past Form Teach Instinct Fossils Permanence

Author:Jean-Henri Fabre

“Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.”

Ends Action Desire Certain Fear Virtue Security Cry Demand Secure Inward Everlasting Continuity Permanence

Book:Krishnamurti's Notebook

Source: Krishnamurti's Notebook

“There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.”

Giving Faces Romance Emotion Conflict Certainty Dramatic Sentiments Impermanence Permanence Flux Changing Everything

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.”

Should Firsts Humans Earth Human Beings Land Mars Colony Settlement Permanence

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.”

“If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.”

Ifs World Moving Differences Balance Unstable Permanence Always Moving

Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

“Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?”

Writing One Day Handle Arise Authenticity Mortals These Days Pens Spells Considering Multitudes Stamps Grammar Violation Permanence

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.”

“The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.”

World Home Form House Taken Materials Ideals Separation Castles Permanence Cottages

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.”

Thinking Humans Soul Individual Religious Indispensable Human Soul Permanence

Author:Lewis Thomas

“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.”

“Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.”

“Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”

Source: Venus in Furs

“The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.”

Feels Trying Heart Stills Hate Jesus Christianity Authority Unique Blue Including Deny Command Hated Rebel Permanence Hate Him Seminars

Author:Joseph Sobran