A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s mid-life crisis, to the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“You said you wanted someone to know you. Maybe I just want to have someone know me too. Without you in this… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself.… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god,… — Richard Watson Copy Share Image
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
