The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we cease to exist, the world we make dissolves, not the world that other people inhabit. Our perception and the way… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Is any of this real? Dangerous question. Sometimes I don’t know the answer. I doubt myself. I doubt what I think I… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I once gave a lecture in which I publicly denied the existence of God. I said: “I want to emphatically affirm today… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once… — Waziyatawin Copy Share Image
We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The existence of glass ceilings in the corporate sector has been extensively researched and documented and there is no need to reiterate… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't said, what I imagine… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
