We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
“Extremely complex individuals are not here to be understood. They are here to be felt on a profound level. Whether that's through… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell;… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
