Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I enjoy the movies just as much as the next person, I owe my existence and privileged life to it. But I… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“According to his thinking, man was not born for a particular purpose. Quite the opposite: a purpose developed only with the birth… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
“In the world we came from, our existence was so easy. And so full of discontent because it was so easy. How… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad 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
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
I think, for women in particular, it's kind of like you're expected to get married, have a child, and then you get… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard 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
