The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“... the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.” — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks… — Dax Shepard 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
This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like,… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They do not exist in their own right, but only have an existence dependent upon many factors, including a consciousness that conceptualizes… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our… — Jean Baptiste Perrin Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Are there any alternatives? Well, there is the hypothesis that this universe is not unique, but that all possible universes exist, and… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one… — David Markson Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. — Howard Gossage Copy Share Image
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool. — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy. — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Dont spend precious time pondering the past. Leave your old emotional baggage behind, embrace the present and celebrate your existence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working… — Jimmy Webb 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
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
