The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory… — William James Copy Share Image
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is… — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but… — Florence Bascom Copy Share Image
I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
