Literary notes about Permanent (AI summary)
The word "permanent" in literature has been employed in a rich variety of contexts, ranging from describing enduring physical structures and unchanging natural phenomena to conveying deep emotional commitments and intellectual absolutes. Some authors use it to highlight lasting states or constants in nature and society—such as the eternal truths of art and reason ([1], [2]) or the fixed lines of defense in military strategy and geography ([3], [4]). In politics and administration, "permanent" secures a sense of stability, as seen in appointments or institutional sessions ([5], [6]), while in personal relationships and legal contracts, it contrasts transience with lasting vows or social bonds ([7], [8]). At times the term is also employed in more technical or metaphorical senses, from describing computer settings needing finality ([9]) to articulating the ineffable and changeless qualities of consciousness ([10]). This multifaceted usage underscores how "permanent" serves as a linguistic bridge between the tangible world and abstract ideals, reinforcing its role as an anchor amid continual change.
- Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Mind, which calls itself the organ of truth, is a permanent possibility of error.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Permanent lines of defense, 95 .
— from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini - Topographic features are usually permanent and produce permanent barriers.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - He has walked over from the House an hour ago to talk with the permanent Under-Secretary, and now he’s ready to walk back again.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad - The official proposal came from Sir Clement Hill, permanent head of the Foreign Office.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - Tell me, is marriage to be merely a contract—something entered into for a time, and then broken again—or is the true marriage permanent?
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - I insist that, from the nature of things, marriage must be as permanent and indissoluble as the relation of parent and child.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Select 24 "Save changes" to make the setting permanent.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Consciousness is the permanent, the abiding, the changeless.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones
