Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our existence is shaped by our action not our thoughts. Our perceptions are shaped by thoughts not action.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Our creator did not create our raw material, but manipulated that which already existed. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a… — David Deida Copy Share Image
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was fifteen, that is to say from that moment when I lost all that was left me of my… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz… — John Anthony West Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
When you are silent, nobody notices your existence. When you speak so loud, people hate your existence. But when you are yourself,… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
