Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
“This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other… — W. Norris Clarke Copy Share Image
If you must die a little to become immortal, then both Ali and Frazier died a bit that night in their third… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“Life without a purpose, to me, is just an existence. Even if you feel your only purpose is to drag yourself to… — D. L. Kline Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not,… — Anne Sewitsky Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
You have to realize that when I started to work on 'Aladdin', Disney Theatrical wasn't in existence. I suppose I had always… — Jonathan Freeman Copy Share Image
“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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