Eternal Quotes - Page 39

• None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

  Theodor Adorno

  Utopia, Abstract, Fulfilled

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.157, Verso

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• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Heaven, Wheels

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• Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Witty, Humorous

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• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  Tadao Ando

  Religious, Church, Trying

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• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Soul, Principles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Heart

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• I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, White, Tea

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Fleeting, Half

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Elements, Half

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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, Opportunity, Culture

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• I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Students, Desperate, These Days

  "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Hands, Baptism, Exaltation

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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• Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Men, Righteous Man

  "The Honored Place of Woman". Ezra Taft Benson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1981.

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• The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Powerful, Men

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

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• Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Answers, Spirit

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• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Fire, Dust

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

  Robert Browning

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.667, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

  James Buchan

  Military, Technology, World

  "The last great heresy" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.

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• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Character, Men

  Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64

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• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Passion, Earthquakes

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Grief, Men, Justice

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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