#transient

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#i #maybe #myself #such #thing

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#either #equate #extended #intrinsic #look

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#except #fame #gone #left #little

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#awareness #christian #christian ethic #ethic #guided

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#humans #people #perspective #scale #space

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— Robert South

#hatred #least #like #transient #very

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #god #things #transient

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. ↗

— Robert Plant

#been #fleeting #going #i #kind

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #contingent #eternal #fleeting #half