If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to… — Common Copy Share Image
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I love people thinking about apologetics. I just think that we have to be careful. We need to realize that we can… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence...… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
