Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“If you are not careful, their beauty will become both heaven and hell, you will betray every oath, abandon every loyalty, give… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers. — Arthur Cheney Train Copy Share Image
Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This intrepid warrior for truth, this cultured, courteous citizen of the world, this devastating, coruscating enemy of lies and cant – well,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“I will never remember anything I know how to forget and forgive Life has turned into miracle,now I know, when I am… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you’re wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image