Quotes 161 till 180 of 196.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The Problem of Pain (1940) -
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
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We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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