Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony… — Laurent Baheux Copy Share Image
“As the years go by those relationships are tested, and only then do you realize their true nature. Only after they've been… — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
“When someone is operating out of alignment, they may do harm, or what you would call harm, but it is not done… — Paul Selig Copy Share Image
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You can't wait neoliberalism out, because the class war will become more consolidated; the punishing state will increase. They'll increasingly solve problems… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Life in this world,” he said, “is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Essentially, this extra structure covering our life has no reality. It has come to be there because of the misuse of our… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Intellectual understanding and rational knowledge are by nature spiritual obstructions caused by arbitrary confirmation and denial...The essence of intellectual understanding and rational… — Shang Yang-tzu Copy Share Image
“All these small ideas that I am a man or a woman, Sick or healthy, strong or weak Or that I hate… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There are always going to be people in life that will lead you to the darkness if you let them, so keep… — JSV Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“With tire Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“In the material world below, she always felt lonely and there was nobody to understand her true nature. She always knew that… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“On the whole, I think of myself as one of those people who take a convenience-sake view of prevailing world conditions, events,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Consider the professing Christians in Europe that either endorsed or stood in silent or fearful indifference to the systematic annihilation of the… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday'… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image