Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would...

Ser ou não ser, eis a questão. O que é mais nobre para a alma? Sofrer as pedradas e as setas da fortuna ultrajosa ou tomar armas contra um mar de tribulações e, fazendo-lhes rosto,...

Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth...

I’m one of my sensations.

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them...

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness...

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations...

You can’t be extinct if people aren’t even aware you ever existed. I should know, because I don’t know.

My life is a code within a code, and I’ll crack both like two eggs and eat my existence like an omelet.

The existence of a terrorist cell is an invention, … we’ve been living here for 20 years, we come from the same country, we have the same religion and the same customs.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another’s actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet in the dim wood that it was like the first...

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space–atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from...

My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended that their power was goodand their exploitation was love.But if there are no gods;why are we so hungry to believe...

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us.

The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

But here’s the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn’t proposing that as a concept; he’s simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist.What follows on...

You don’t understand,” Alecto replied vacantly. “It isn’t that I want to die… I just don’t want to exist.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”[Moral...

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

Everything you wish to “create” is already there, waiting for you.

Exist outside but live and rest within…

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What’s it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where...

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no...

To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an...

The goings-on in Mind does not depend on what exist in reality. Rather, it depends on what you believe what exists in reality.

Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui...

How could a person have and do all these stupid things–clip coupons and double lock the front door–and then one day just cease to exist?

Bury me where I die.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that...

There are only two worlds – your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not...

Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!

Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows them to react with sufficient vigor to form compounds, since electrons neither roam...

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not….Nor do I know that I know him not.

What is the value of your existence?

Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there’s intelligent life on other planets) or downright unreasonable (fairies exist).There’s a scale of reasonableness, if...