Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In some ways, the idea of settling down is alien to me. I'm more familiar with having a peripatetic existence, flitting here… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Today, in a staggeringly complex and diverse world, the overarching biblical narrative that includes creation, fall, redemption and fulfillment has frequently been… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“I am. I always was. I always am. I shall always be. The past and the future meet in the eternal now.… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence,… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
