Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

Djuna Barnes

Only the impossible lasts forever.

David Mitchell

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Carl Sagan

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

Bryce Dallas Howard

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Jane Smiley

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

Charles Baudelaire

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

William Shakespeare

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

Arthur Erickson

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Nelson Mandela

There's no such thing as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

John Philpot Curran

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Francisco Goya

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Thomas Hardy

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Stephen King

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Alan Watts

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

Carl Jung

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Chaka Khan

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

Alan Cohen

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

Deepak Chopra

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Albert Schweitzer

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

Dallas Willard

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.