“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won… — Randy Wayne Copy Share Image
“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
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