You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist,… — Gottfried Leibniz 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
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
By 'God' I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My soul is connected to the energy that created the universe when I die I shall go back to the source of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt… — Anthony Kiedis 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
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
