Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Stanley Hauerwas

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

Tom Shadyac

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Justin Cronin

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Ernst Mach

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Zygmunt Bauman

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Raoul Vaneigem

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Richard Dawkins

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Sylvia Browne

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Vincent McNabb