Source: Note to Self (2017), Chapter 28, "To my dearest future", p.301
“Nothing is permanent but change.”
“Women can do nothing that has permanence.”
The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115
“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
“In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 33 (pp. 156-157)
Introduction
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Context: Nothing is permanent: certainly not the frozen images of barbarous power with which fascism now confronts us. Those images may easily be smashed by an external shock, cracked as ignominiously as the fallen Dagon, the massive idol of the heathen; or they may be melted, eventually, by the internal warmth of normal men and women. Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. As life becomes insurgent once more in our civilization, conquering the reckless thrust of barbarism, the culture of cities will be both instrument and goal.
