You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential…

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly…

— Walter Kirn

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after…

— Albert Einstein

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual,…

— Emma Goldman

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the…

— Swami Vivekananda

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

— H. G. Wells

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

— Kerry Gleeson

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

— Philip K. Dick

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper…

— Billy Graham

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art…

— Simon Pegg