It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
'Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
“Human life, distinct from juridical existence, existing as it does on a globe isolated in celestial space, from night to day and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
“I’ve been worried since I left the womb Like a schizophrenic on shrooms Like a hypochondriac on crack Never shy with the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing,… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Apparently, all I do is walk my dogs. In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential… — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
