“Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence.… — Lee Martin 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Further, this human responsibility is in the first instance ‘not...a task but a gift,...not law but grace’. It expresses itself in ‘believing,… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Evil can be destroyed in either direction. Some are meant to be cast down. Others rise, but their elevation is meant to… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“But in the biblical understanding revelation is a historical event: it is the word of God coming to the moment of human… — Hammann Konrad 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
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
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
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to… — Udo Schnelle Copy Share Image
“If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired.… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing… — C. Baxter Kruger Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson 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
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
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
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
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
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