We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Man is a futile existence that propagates itself for the sake of life. — Rev Richard Skaff Copy Share Image
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.” — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Life is a bridge starting from nowhere going to nowhere. We must find a way to remain on the bridge, inside the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you, was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“You have to make peace with the fact that you have the right to be here, not because you have what it… — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image