For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I… — Jean Seberg Copy Share Image
God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett 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
It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The basic fact of existence in life of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage? — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“The song in our heart ultimately sustains us. Each of us possesses the ability to choose how we perceive life, determine what… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If I would be to prove the existence of God, I will do nothing about it. I will leave it to yourself.” — Mihail Militaru Copy Share Image
“If I were to prove the existence of God, I would do nothing about it. I will leave it to you.” — Mihail Militaru Copy Share Image
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by… — Fred Singer Copy Share Image
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I… — Carmen Kass Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our social networks, our news, our mundane existence and our important moments are all mediated by algorithms, whose proprietary, profit-driven, ad-financed nature… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image