There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No!… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
“It happens.” He turned again to the garden. “To the brain, I mean. It’s the drink, naturally. And the hepatic function. But… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life,… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
“The human condition comprehends more than the conditions under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
