Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“...that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we wil age, and that we… — jan phillip sendker Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“There is a foundational need inherent in every human person to love someone and to be loved. The self is completed and… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
