Sentence examples for permanence of things from inspiring English sources

Scott continues to claim that "the notion of God supporting the natural permanence of things is a contradiction in Leibnizian terms, resolvable only if a greater, occasionalist-like dependence of nature upon God is admitted".

As a matter of esthetics, Mr. Loback refuses to lash anything together, like his friend El Ropo does in attempting permanence, of all things, in a place like New York.

The question here is what sense can be made of the idea that God's conservation is a 'support' for the 'natural permanence of a thing which comes into existence'" (Scott §4).

"The idea of permanence, of legacy, of creating things that will last".

With each incarnation of the Pythagorean conception of the permanence behind all things (via Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and now Aquinas), the concept of species stasis was preserved, etching it as a normative viewpoint across cultures and time.

It may not get to the roots of things, but it undermines art's pretensions to seriousness, personal expression and permanence.

… They got a lot of things to do with the moon, we can help them in their permanence because it helps us with our permanence at Mars," he said.

And while she acknowledges that the process of the celebrity profile freaks her out (the "self-editing thing" and "the permanence of it is what's nerve-racking to me... And the intimacy of it"), she opens up about her palpable affection for leading man and real-life boyfriend Garfield.

Cornell wanted to reënchant his objects, to give the things he loved the permanence of art.

Permanence makes things too formal and stodgy.

So much of our pursuit of happiness consists of seeking stability and permanence, when those things don't really exist.