Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self,… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“The only worthwhile constant in human existence is our heart which can only be nourished by sincere love. A good strong heart… — Sohail Mahmood Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Human existence is, ab initio, an ongoing externalization. As man externalizes himself, he constructs the world into which he externalizes himself. In… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“As Lord David Cecil has said: “The jargon of the philosophy of progress taught us to think that the savage and primitive… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond beings occurs in the essence… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experience We all ultimately want a pain free existence,… — Brian Edward Arsenault Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“Human existence, or one's manifestation of it, is the greatest riddle of all. Many people will pursue this curiosity through insurmountable tragedies… — Barbara Boyer Copy Share Image
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
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