This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In truth, Father said, at the first instant of the universe, all of time was present, all our yesterdays and today and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which… — Seth Copy Share Image
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Each moment is now. Reality amounts to flickering lapses in time, as infinite layers of now. And with this constant motion we… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness." Indeed, it… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Through living in a space that we do not understand, everything may become meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image