Enduring Quotes
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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference .
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More Enduring Quotes
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
christopher hitchens— As quoted in Merchey, Jason (2004). Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value". p. 330.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
— Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (1851), Ch. 104 : The Fossil Whale
Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
— Edward Hopper 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.
ursula goodenough— p xxi (The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998))
His thinking threw light in a very introspective way on the entire process of the judicial function. His decisions, beyond just the vote they represented, were sufficiently philosophical to be of enduring interest. He decided the case before him with that respect for its particulars, its special features, that marks alike the honest artist and the just judge.
harlan, john marshall, ii— Paul Freund, The Judges' Judge, Time Magazine (June 10, 1972).
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.
fred hoyle— Martin Rees, in Hoyle's obituary in Physics Today (November 2001)
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
gertrude jekyll— As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
And our enduring strength is also reflected in our respect for an international system that protects the rights of both nations and people -- a United Nations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights; international law and the means to enforce those laws. But we also know that those rules are not self-executing; they depend on people and nations of goodwill continually affirming them.
— Barack Obama, Address to European Youth delivered on March 26, 2014 at Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Belgium
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors , and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK . However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers .
james berardinelli— Review of Natural Born Killers (1994)
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.
john carroll— pp. 95-96, note
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche’s late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.
john carroll— p. 174 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.
kenneth clark— Ch. I: The Naked and the Nude
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
Peter Greenaway— One of the calligraphers
It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.
thomas hardy— Bk. I, ch. 1.
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Edward Hopper— 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
italo svevo— Paul Bailey, in The Independent, September 24, 1999. [1]
There is only one enduring happiness in life to live for others.
leo tolstoy— Part 1, chapter 2
But he could stand up with unabashed brow and repeat with enduring audacity the same words a dozen times over “The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.” Had he been asked whether the prosperity which he promised was temporal or spiritual in its nature, not only would he not have answered, but he would not in the least have understood the question.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 4 (Phineas Redux (1874))
Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or “loyal opposition” to the culture in which it is involved.
alan watts— p. 7 (Psychotherapy, East and West (1961))
The friendship between Iran and the United States, strong and enduring, has been enriched by the shared experiences of our two nations.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, "Message to the Shah of Iran on the 25th Anniversary of His Reign.," September 16, 1965. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. .
Surely the cosmic irony that loves men's dullness because it alone can preserve them from madness, and retorts upon the cosmic terrors with a jest, is higher than gallantry and more enduring. It arrives at tolerance for all human shortcomings; it embraces high and low in its sympathies; it achieves urbanity as a final goal. It is the stuff of which great literature is made.
— Vernon Louis Parrington, reviewing the work of James Branch Cabell in The Pacific Review (December 1921), later published in Main Currents in American Thought (1927)
There are several kinds of monsters in western popular culture today: werewolves, vampires , morlaks, the blood-countess and other creatures of the underworld. (...) Vampirism, and (...) monstrosity has been fundamentally intertwined with Eastern Europe (...) [I]s it only an accident that the four most enduring popular culture villains, Frankenstein , Count Dracula ( Nosferatu ), the Morlak and the Golem had emerged in Europe during modernity (...)? That all four creatures are connected somehow to Eastern European regions?
— Kürti, László (2009). "The Symbolic Construction of the Monstruous – The Elizabeth Bathory Story" (PDF). Narodna umjetnost 46 (1). Retrieved on 2009-12-01.
I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate.
— General Skobeleff, in Fortnightly Review (October 1882).
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
— Aldous Huxley, "Sacred Jewels of Yoga: Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monk"
[T]he Jews are enduring their present troubles because of Christ.
— Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6
The vast material resources of Oregon furnish a solid and enduring basis for the spirit of enterprise that animates our people, and for that wonderful superstructure of vigorous and thrifty statehood which we are rearing here on this western shore of the continent.
— Stephen F. Chadwick (1878). Governor Stephen F. Chadwick - Biennial Message, 1878. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Biennial Message of Gov. S. F. Chadwick, to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon Tenth Regular Session-1878 329 Governor’s Message.
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow .
— Percy Bysshe Shelley in Adonais, XXX
[T]he Jews are enduring their present troubles because of Christ.
— John Chrysostom (349–ca. 407), Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6.
