Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This… — Geoffrey Hodson Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to… — Eberhard Jüngel Copy Share Image
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms… — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of… — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with… The existence of banks with single digit… — Anat R. Admati Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us -… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Rabbi Bunam zei tegen zijn leerlingen dat zij steeds twee zakken over hun schouders moesten dragen om naar behoefte in de ene… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In our relative existence, it is not we who are at the origin of the movement of things and events. The Force… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else.… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
