Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His task was to discover his own destiny -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot… — Jean Amery Copy Share Image
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another,… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
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