Force Quote by J. H. Rush

A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the…

— Howard Zahniser

“The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend…

— Karlfried Graf Durckheim

“Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.”

— Adalbert De Vogue

“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition. Seeking enlightenment…

— Wendell Berry

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

— Mahatma Gandhi

When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and…

— Michel Foucault

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

— Emile M. Cioran

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable as the…

— Elizabeth Goudge