In its origin the Buddha's celebrated doctrine that there is no permanent self in persons or things is not a speculative proposition, nor a sentimental lament over the transitoriness of the world, but a basis for religion and morals.
Whatever the origin of the idea may have been, its root in post-Vedic times is a sense of the transitoriness but continuity of everything.
Transitoriness of certain interests: Interests must be utilized when they appear--The value of a strong interest.
That transitoriness assumes a still more tragic aspect, when regarded as the result of the collision of God's "wrath" with frail man.
The contrast of God's eternity with man's transitorinessis like the similar trend of thought in Psalms xc.
Throughout his Quest he has held fast to the conviction that "it is a comely fashion to be glad," though he could allege no better reason for his conviction than the transitoriness of life and the impossibility of reaching any higher good.
Let us take our verse together as a whole and we have something better than moralising over the flight of time and the transitoriness of the world; something better than vulgarising "vanity of vanities" by vapid iteration.
The transitoriness of a sunset glory, or of human life, is rife with poetic pathos because it is a transitoriness which cannot be helped.
This transitoriness of doctrines appears in many instances, of which two may be selected for a more attentive consideration.
Another instance of the transitoriness of doctrines taught as Christian is found in those which relate to the nature and authority of Christ.
One reason why the facts of delayedness and transitoriness in instincts have been so generally accepted without being thoroughly tested has been the belief in the recapitulation or repeating by the individual of racial development.
So long as this was accepted as explaining the development of inborn tendencies and their order of appearance, transitoriness and delayedness must necessarily be postulated.
Children are supposed to be interested and attracted by novelty, rhythm, and movement,--to be creatures of play and imagination and to become different merely as a matter of the transitoriness of these tendencies due to growth.
Everything in the world is transitory, and that transitoriness is absurd!
The stanzas dealing with the transitorinessof human life near the end of Book IV.
They then sit down on a grassy spot and listen to old stories or a sermon on the transitoriness of life till the stars appear.
Renunciation is not, however, the only goal to which the transitoriness of worldly goods leads the gnomic poets of India.
By then a woman knows the transitoriness of youth; she realizes how short is the span of time in which a woman can control her destiny.
It was the transitoriness not only of hers but of all those women's touch with life that made the pattern of their destiny.
A man who thus thinks has penetrated the nature of transitory things, for he has felt compelled to characterise the essence of transitoriness itself in the clearest terms.
Here Heraclitus is not primarily drawing attention to the transitoriness of earthly things, but to the splendour and majesty of the eternal.
The individual flower, the grass or leaf of any one day or spring-tide, becomes the type of the transitoriness of beauty and youth and life.
We hear a good deal of lovers' quarrels, and of the transitoriness of love.
This is through and through nothing else than the constant change of matter in the fixed permanence of form; and this is what constitutes the transitoriness of the individual and the permanence of the species.
When she has reached the utter selflessness of a Clod of Clay, then only will she be able to behold steadfastly the seeming transitoriness of youth and beautiful things; seeming, for like the lowly lily they melt to flourish in eternal vales.
Thel, youngest daughter of the Seraphim, bewails the transitoriness of life and all beautiful things, herself included.
He reaches some superiority to the transitoriness of things, only by abstracting from Time altogether.
The power that can give us security against the transitoriness of the world and against the instincts of antagonism is there in the faith that we place in God.
But again and again such a world of transitoriness will ever build itself up; who shall redeem you from the curse of Becoming?
Faith discovereth to the soul the blessedness, and goodness, and durableness of the one; the vanity, foolishness, and transitoriness of the other.
There is such a one dead, such a one is departed; it is because they do so little consider both the transitoriness of themselves and their neighbours.
