...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery,… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago tribes of human beings suffered great privations in the struggle to survive. In this struggle it was important… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
There's stable subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, electrons - and then there's unstable ones that decay into stable ones. One will become… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a bird is made in such a way that it can fly, gather food and build a nest, and when I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image