A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole existence is surrounded by a divine energy that protects you, cares for you, is always available. If you go on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“One of the most intriguing things about the universe, which probably cannot be explained by scientific investigations, is that it exists and… — Jamal Nazrul Islam 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
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively… — Mikis Theodorakis 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
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I speak my life into existence with each expressed breath I take. I tell you a story within which are more stories.… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“What's at the End of Space? Thereof seeker discovers "That", the basis of What Is - here, there, within, without - the… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“So be optimistic whatever your perception of the universe happens to be. You wouldn’t look at an ocean and deny the existence… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image
“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image