Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god,… — Richard Watson Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself.… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you havent take the chances to really know yourself and what you truly want, theres always possibilities that you will always… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
