Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy…

— Rajneesh

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

— Dixie Carter

Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the…

— Jan Frazier

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it…

— Adam Clarke

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because…

— Rush Limbaugh

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just…

— Frederick Lenz

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new…

— Karl Marx

“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between…

— Charles Krauthammer

It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the…

— Zachary Macaulay

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

— Frederick Lenz

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then…

— Otto Bauer

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are…

— Thomas Jefferson

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of…

— Carl Jung