We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle,… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy… Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew… — Pete Dunne Copy Share Image
There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“To be Kaspar Hauser is to long, at every moment of your dubious existence, with every fiber of your questionable being, not… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to complain of. For three days I have tramped the desert, have known the pangs of thirst, have followed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“I think: there at the point where thought joins with me I am able to subtract myself from being, without diminishing, without… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image