“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“Yeah.” I took another deep breath. “I’m gonna die, Emma.” “You mean eventually, right?” She blinked, and I could tell it hadn’t… — rachel vincent Copy Share Image
“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely felt the want of that information which… — Merriweather Lewis Copy Share Image
“When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your… — Adam L. Feldman Copy Share Image
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself.… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This is hard,” he said, but he did not seem to address his words to me. “I’m too close to the end.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
“At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he… — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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