“When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“God is inscrutable, mysterious and unknowable. We do not understand what life is about, what it means, why we are here and… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“A visceral attraction derived from the mystery in the stars. A harsh truth of human existence is searching for a universal answer… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I see no justice in that plan." "Who said," lashed out Isaac Penn, "that you, a man, can always perceive justice? Who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives may seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the art of peace, a single cut of the sword summons up the wondrous powers of the universe. That one sword… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
