But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve… — Horace Copy Share Image
We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P Copy Share Image
Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same.… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence — Rumi Copy Share Image
You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image