| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? -- Nagarjuna |
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NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| A Human Thought is an actual existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. -- Charles Darwin |
| Author:
Darwin, CharlesEra:
1809 |
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| Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author:
GurdjieffEra:
1873 |
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| Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. The life force that was, was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat. Desire came upon that one in the beginning; that was the first seed of mind. -- Rig Veda |
| Author:
Veda, RigEra:
-1200 |
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