In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“We are a handful of dust in God’s image Before we return again to dusty grave Life isn’t a war, it’s a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
“Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine 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
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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