To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The Father, Who is Justice, is not without the Son or the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit, Who kindles the heart… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
