Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even… — Robert Lanza 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
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett 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
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We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
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I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
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Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
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I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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