To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer… — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
“I feel the overwhelming ache from surviving day after day in this miserable system that looks like a miserable world. To live… — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
“It was not only the absence of light but the absence of everything. He might be at the core of a black… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
My effort here is to help you to feel that existence is not indifferent towards you. It is deeply concerned about you,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Then the matter is as we have confirmed. So know that you are imagination and that which you perceive and of which… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers,… — Susan Hampshire Copy Share Image
“The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be. I press my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest,… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
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
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have… — Indira Gandhi 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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