When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each… — George H. Bender Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Real, sensational existence is that which is not dependent on my own mental spontaneity or activity … But God is not seen,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence—that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
“Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the… — Veda Vyasa Copy Share Image
London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection… — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
