#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

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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

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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

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

#oft #pleasure #source #too #transient

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. ↗

— James Stockdale

#i #i think #issues #permanent #think

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. ↗

— James Grainger

#empty #fame #gold #shining #transient

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

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

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