“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE The world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our… — Petek Kabakci Copy Share Image
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
“...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Living Holy Week following Jesus means learning how to come out of ourselves to reach out to others, to go to the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and,… — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The world is big but it is comprehensible," says R. Buckminster Fuller. But it seems to me that the world is not… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
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