“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea,… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Existence is beyond the power of words To define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute. In the beginning… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is… — AashiQi Copy Share Image
“Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"?… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image