Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition.… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area … The reference of… — Patrick David Wall Copy Share Image
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker or… — Haruki Murakami 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
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is a work of art. Every living creature a story. You should hang out in a museum or… — C. L. Currie Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My existence on this planets for you, I aint only here to benefit me. Yo, we need to make a change while… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Our social networks, our news, our mundane existence and our important moments are all mediated by algorithms, whose proprietary, profit-driven, ad-financed nature… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the… — Nicos Poulantzas Copy Share Image