“Nature gives us a dispersed finality. It is a demonology, full of supranatural forces, not one of which is supernatural. On this… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Standing there, I came face-to-face with the unwelcome finality of death. What can you do with it? It stops you cold when… — Jan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions. Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned… — Felix Guattari Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing… — Diana Pharaoh Francis Copy Share Image
“To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“We experience this emotional roller coaster because we can never find stability and lasting peace until our attachment and dependency is on… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
