Quote:- What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Author:- Alain de Botton
Category:- time
Quote:- what makes timelines thrive is CREATION and you are part of this. your way makes ripples of creation whether you are writing song or book or making spaghetti or turning on a light. YOU ARE INFINITELY POWERFUL JUST BY BEING YOU do not forget this strength and wield it for love
Author:- Chuck Tingle
Category:- hope
Quote:- What makes us different is not the fact that you think you’d act a different way than I did, in a situation that you’ve never been in. What actually makes us different is that you’ve never been in that situation. What makes us different is that you truly think you know how you’d react.
Author:- Niedria D. Kenny
Category:- motivational
Quote:- What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it.
Littlefoot: A Poem
Author:- Charles Wright
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
Truth and Method
Author:- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What matter most in life is faith expressed through love.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
Author:- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Author:- Hippocrates
Category:- science
Quote:- What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia be silent?
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Author:- Richard P. Feynman
Category:- science
Quote:- What mother Teresa did for the poor, you did for me alone
Letters: to a love like ours
Author:- Daniel Derrick Mwesigye
Category:- Love
Quote:- What motivates a person is a sense of meaning. A clearly defined, even uniquely determined role in life brings about life satisfaction.
Author:- Steve M. Beauchamp
Category:- motivational
Quote:- What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
The Complete Poetry
Author:- John Milton
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy?
Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
Author:- Daniel J. Flynn
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.
Author:- Nikki Rowe
Category:- hope
Quote:- What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
Author:- Peter Singer
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness? They are of two sorts: (1) Other human beings who are styled persons. (2) Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things... But is there any reason why we should be suffered to torment them? Not any that I can see. Are there any why we should not be suffered to torment them? Yes, several. The day has been, I grieve to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
The Principles of Morals and Legislation
Author:- Jeremy Bentham
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.
The Light in the Heart
Author:- Roy T. Bennett
Category:- Life,inspiration