At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present… — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence. — Rumi Copy Share Image
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Some things are hurrying into existence and others are hurrying out of it and of that which is coming into existence, part… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“that we are not alone in the universe. There are many dimensions (frequencies) of existence and many beings operate within these various… — Kathy Robertson Copy Share Image
“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a… — Charles Templeton Copy Share Image
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence — Rumi Copy Share Image
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction. — Anaximander Copy Share Image
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Was this what life was? Long periods of invisibility followed by short bursts of existence?” — Augustus Rose Copy Share Image
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that… — Erik Griffin Copy Share Image
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image