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American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915Related quotes
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 5, Physical Destiny, p. 143
Source: Note to Self (2017), Chapter 28, "To my dearest future", p.301
“Upon a foundation of changed lives permanent reconstruction is assured.”
Remaking the world, The Speeches of Frank N.D. Buchman, Blandford Presss 1947, revised 1958, p. 5
Moral attitude
“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)
“Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing.”
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having accepted it, a distinction remains to be observed, a distinction of capital importance, which we are in constant danger of forgetting. It is one thing to find the Permanent; it is another thing to find a form of words in which the Permanent shall stand permanently expressed. It is one thing to experience something fixed and changeless; it is another thing to fix this something by a changeless definition. The first may be possible, while the second remains impossible for ever.