It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“She’s a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves.… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves… — Laura Jane Grace 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
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
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The key to receiving what you’re manifesting is to exist in the state of already having it. Ask yourself how you would… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' ) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Every human is a combination of spirit and matter. You can change the form but you can't change the essence. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
