The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“It is a natural instinct to grasp what is falling, reach for what is slipping or chase what is running away. ”… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. — Garchen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
