He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility…

“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings…

— Matthew Thomas

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for…

— Eugene Ionesco

The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry…

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from…

— Simone de Beauvoir

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves…

— Oscar Wilde

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions…

— Susan Sontag

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but…

— Albert Camus

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence,…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

— Edward Hirsch

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to…

— Philip Roth

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

— Albert Camus

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

— Andre Aciman