To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find…

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise…

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

“I miss talking to him. Every time I come across something I think he'd like, I just wish I could call him up or…

— Lang Leav

Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your…

— Stephen R. Covey

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is…

— Hermann Hesse

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human…

— Kenneth Tynan

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we…

— Gregory Orr

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

— Gaston Bachelard

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;…

— John Trudell

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a…

— Anonymous

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the…

— Anonymous

I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The…

— Richard Grossman