“Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence.… — Lee Martin Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that… — Greg Graffin 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
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages.… — Milan Kundera 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
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant 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
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
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
“Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a society that viewed… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Yeah.” I took another deep breath. “I’m gonna die, Emma.” “You mean eventually, right?” She blinked, and I could tell it hadn’t… — rachel vincent Copy Share Image
“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely felt the want of that information which… — Merriweather Lewis Copy Share Image
“When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your… — Adam L. Feldman 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
“He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“The relationship between limerence and sex remains extremely complicated. Despite virtually unanimous agreement among interviewees that sex with LO under the best… — Dorothy Tennov Copy Share Image
It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“The constant back and forth between the poles of the android id and the human ego gave rise to the soul drama… — Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
