The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
Melvil Dewey

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
Johannes Tauler

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Kenzaburo Oe

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Alva Myrdal

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

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
Neale Donald Walsch

The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence.
Jane Lazarre

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.
Johannes P. Muller

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid