“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker” — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits. — Vilna Gaon Copy Share Image
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“Whether we (humans) are living in a simulation or multiverse or in god made universe, some things are true everywhere. Freedom, unconditional… — Mohamed evanz Copy Share Image
Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the… — Randy Quaid Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson 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
