Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence. — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There is no existence without history, and there are few battles that mark it better than Frazier-Ali I. — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now… — Koethi Zan Copy Share Image
I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe… — Philip C. Plait Copy Share Image
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is a dearth of imagination and I think that's an understatement in a modern Muslim world. There is very little willingness… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
My effort here is to help you to feel that existence is not indifferent towards you. It is deeply concerned about you,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image