“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Trying to change situations or conditions solely with action in the world would be like trying to fix an unwanted image in… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Real existence" never appears for any kind of consciousness, since it is not a knowable object. Also, to identify and negate such… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
“Our existence is based on the variety of life that we have experienced. Yet, in the end when the reality of identity… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
