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To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour , to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach , the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
— Pablo Casals, in CONCERTS AT SAINT THOMAS - Saint Thomas Church
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference .
— Dee Hock, in Birth of the Chaordic Age, p.198
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
florence king— "Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
— Denis Diderot, in Quotes about Patriotism, p.4
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person… With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.
johannes kepler— De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus (1601), foreword
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
Edward Teller— As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by Istvan Hargittai, p. 251
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. ... Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. ... that by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.
Nikos Kazantzakis— "Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96
All is ephemeral fame and the famous as well.
marcus aurelius— ?, ?.IV, 35.
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Vol. 2, Ch. 3, § 39
Built on sand, lacking a firm foundation, unstable, ephemeral, from the parable in the Bible (Mathews) of the two houses founded respectively on rock and on sand.
— In p.181 (Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations)
Candies come, flowers come, furs come, but such ephemeral gifts fail to satisfy a woman's psychological craving for a renewal of the romance .
— N. W. Ayer, in "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?"
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.
— Jonathan Ames, in Never Boring: The Curious Case Of Jonathan Ames
Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection , not the face itself.
— Farid ud-Din Attar, in Farid ud-Din Attar, p.21
All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius, inThe Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for ..., p.171
To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! ... that is what I call prayer .
— Claude Debussy, in The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, p.83
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture , designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
— Christian Dior, in Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New, p.170
You judge of the continuous existence of the world , as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are.
— Denis Diderot, in Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, p.64
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
— Florence King, in Escape the Pace: 100 Fun and Easy Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Your Life, p.58
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories...but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu .
— Florence King, in Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress, p.29
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 determine the destiny of our nation (Yeah) in the ideological struggle against communism .
— Martin Luther King, Jr., in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Symbol of the movement, January 1957 ..., p.211
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
— Karl Lagerfeld, in The Truth About Style, p.12
Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is "one and indivisible ".
— Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, in The Shah's story, p.205
I don't seek discomfort . But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
— Michael Palin, in Michael Palin: 'I'm just curious about the world'
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.
— Nikola Tesla, in The Nikola Tesla Treasury, p.362
In her world , the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in perfect equilibrium ...
— Sophey Taeuber, in Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, p.652
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
— Rafael Vinoly, in Rafael Viñoly Takes The Opera Stage
...the river valley is a magic box. To those who would observe , the pattern of colour and movement paint a picture that is a masterwork resulting from millions of years of nature's efforts, yet dynamic and ephemeral.
— Nancy S.M. Waldman, in Art of the Now – an essay of ephemeral art]]
ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy, in Hess Art Collection
