“Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)” — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Existence— well, what does it matter? I've existed for the best use i can The past is now part of my future… — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that you leave the earth to be a better place because of your existence.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“With each passing moment, an infinity of potentialities become just one reality, your life narrowing with each tick of the clock.” — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
I think, for women in particular, it's kind of like you're expected to get married, have a child, and then you get… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy… Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese,… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. — John Searle Copy Share Image
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image