“Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent… — Alija Izetbegović 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
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don’t… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung 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
“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself.… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller 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 believe in the reincarnation of the imagination. Many thousands of years ago, a dreamer lay in a field at night. He… — Edward Pontacoloni Copy Share Image
“From the perspective of the radicals, the habitus basis of human existence is, as a whole, no more than a spiritually worthless… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experience We all ultimately want a pain free existence,… — Brian Edward Arsenault Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Human existence, or one's manifestation of it, is the greatest riddle of all. Many people will pursue this curiosity through insurmountable tragedies… — Barbara Boyer 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
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
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
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired.… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises 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
“Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to… — Udo Schnelle Copy Share Image
“If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The only worthwhile constant in human existence is our heart which can only be nourished by sincere love. A good strong heart… — Sohail Mahmood Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self,… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image