The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Try not to stay under the shade of anyone, because every time the sun goes away, your shelter does too. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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