
“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 75
“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Khushwant Singh in Sikh Philosophy Network
The Mask of Apollo (1966)
Context: Christianity and Islam have changed irrevocably the moral reflexes of the world. The philosopher Herakleitos said with profound truth that you cannot step twice into the same river. The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.”
As quoted in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 64