I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential… — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder:… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I like the stability, the continuity of having a lifestyle where I know I can pay my rent at the end of… — Gabrielle Anwar Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Are there any alternatives? Well, there is the hypothesis that this universe is not unique, but that all possible universes exist, and… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“They do not exist in their own right, but only have an existence dependent upon many factors, including a consciousness that conceptualizes… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence,… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
