Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary. — Melissa Auf der Maur Copy Share Image
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorded, weighed on big karma… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
“The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief. The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. — Kurt Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“A more miserable life is better...believe me..than an existence protected by an organized society...where everything is calculated…where everything is perfect...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“asked. ‘Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.’ ‘I” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in… — Averroes Copy Share Image
“Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
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