When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter,… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.” — Doug Dillon Copy Share Image
To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space,… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits. — Vilna Gaon Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with freedom is to become so absolutely free that our very existence seizes to exists. — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The desideratum of the philosophy “better to have never been” is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially… — Micere Githae Mugo Copy Share Image
I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
'Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old. — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate. — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
That which you have received, you should be grateful for it. And the most beautiful phenomenon is that when you are grateful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Don't just exist... live, being happy in life is simple, Focus on you, making yourself happy, love what you do and do… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a reason the United States opposes the very existence of the International Criminal Court, at least where American war crimes are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
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