For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
“According to his thinking, man was not born for a particular purpose. Quite the opposite: a purpose developed only with the birth… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you… — Frederick Lenz 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
