"If loneliness is part of our essence, that……" — Brendan Myers
"If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world."
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14 Quotes by Brendan Myers
Brendan Myers has 14 quotes on this site.
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People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences…
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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show…
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Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage…
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest…
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The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller…
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No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
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All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods;…
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the…
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My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128…
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear…
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More Actually Exist Quotes
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Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world…
— David Bellamy
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I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but…
— Kate Upton
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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next…
— Jonathan Haidt
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To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the…
— Dion Fortune
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Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and…
— Tracy K. Smith
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I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses…
— Hilary Duff
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things…
— Cennino Cennini
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It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
— Steven Kotler
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously -…
— Olivia Thirlby
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I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation…
— Paul Bettany
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Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the…
— Charlie Campbell
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
— Graham Greene
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