The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits. — Vilna Gaon Copy Share Image
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker” — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“I just get a feeling sometimes that everything is predetermined, and I am going through the motions of tracing an existence that… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Joy is our purpose of existence. Yet pain in life is inevitable. Doesn’t that make our purpose impossible at times then?” — eBookIt.com Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image