“When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing… — C. Baxter Kruger Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The human mind creates a fundamental problem for human existence. The mind can always imagine a better state of the world than… — Thomas Dalton Copy Share Image
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
“This is hard,” he said, but he did not seem to address his words to me. “I’m too close to the end.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
“At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he… — Sean DeLauder 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
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore,… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and… — Jonathan Crary Copy Share Image
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - and more importantly, if science could… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell 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
WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our… — Christopher Locke Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon… — Eckhart Tolle 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
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation… — Vera Stanley Alder Copy Share Image
Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“My quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
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
“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
We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image