“Given that bringing a life into existence always constitutes a harm (since that life will inevitably suffer at various points), whereas the… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“A man matters, his experiences matter, but in a city, where experiences come by the thousands, we can no longer relate them… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“One realizes that everything about the world that seems so unexceptional and drearily predictable is in fact charged with an immense and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s funny isn’t it? People claim to know what love is — yet the minute they’re given the opportunity to prove it… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
'Cause I understand now. You said I was gonna die, but you mean this whole world, is gonna blink out of existence.… — Donna Noble Copy Share Image
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image