“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“The purpose of your existence is to be you well. The only way to be you well is to be honest. Truly… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
I spent five years in Dublin as a stand-up, living on pea sandwiches. But at times I quite enjoyed the bohemian penniless… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst… — Kamran Pasha Copy Share Image
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the motivator of today's world, kindness is the reality of yesterday's world, empowerment is our de faux of tomorrows world. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character. — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
All existence is awareness & forms of awareness, within awareness, the self in disguise. There is nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image