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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I’m so old that I often tell myself, on nights when multitudes of stars are sparkling in the sky, there must necessarily… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“There is only this one life going on, this one loving, all giving, perfect intelligence. This one perfect pattern of infinite potential,… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them,… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“Cartesian,adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum- whereby he was pleased to suppose he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
“He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, “Life was in him,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The lessons of rocks, stars,and life are clear. To understand Earth, you must divorce yourself for the inconsequential temporal or spacial scale… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That is the best picture of what the incarnation means when we look at in its true context. For that is what… — C. Baxter Kruger 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
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“It is those who have compassion for all life who will best safeguard the life of man. Those who become aroused only… — Edwin Way Teale 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
“Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism, a philosophy that… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“This is the great dream of which each individual dream is a personal manifestation. Dream is ontogenetic. Myth is phylogenetic. "Dreams and… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Living in the land of, "What if…?" leads to emotional paralysis. It sets the stage for doom and gloom thinking. It prevents… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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