“At last she sighed. "But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a… — Gustave Flaubert 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
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended,… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There is the globe, The foundation of my bodily existence. It wears me out with work and duties, It gives me rest… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
God offers to His children the promise of a glorious and infinite existence and has provided a way for us to progress… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when… — John Green Copy Share Image
Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“The problem is that people have tried to look away from space and from the meaning of the moon landing. I remember… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
What is, what was, what will be. It does not matter. All things are nothing. Nothing is nothing. Nothing is all things.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“It’s a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His… — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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