Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe;… — David Elazar Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels 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
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words,… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. — John Searle Copy Share Image
We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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