Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“you needed only to comprehend that there is a hidden natural explanation for everything that alarms or eludes you. That explanation will… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own imaginary Destiny… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her… — Nehemiah Adams Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“OrI just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not be dead. Or kill myself.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Ti's not religion nor politics nor decree, Ti's not history nor ethics nor the visions you might see, Ti's the simplicity to… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul.… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
“My takeaway from all of Ophelia's sessions was that life favored value. The world was bursting with opportunity. If you didn't like… — Fran Seen Copy Share Image
“When we cease to exist, the world we make dissolves, not the world that other people inhabit. Our perception and the way… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is any of this real? Dangerous question. Sometimes I don’t know the answer. I doubt myself. I doubt what I think I… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Human life, distinct from juridical existence, existing as it does on a globe isolated in celestial space, from night to day and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced -… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
