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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. - B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. B. R. Ambedkar

Mind, Human, Aim, Should, Ultimate

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Erik Erikson

Identity, Feeling, Jungle, Alive, Human

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Guy Finley

Life, Winter, Tree, Leaf, Purpose, Fall

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. Charles Bukowski

Fear, Anger, Face, Sadness, Facts, Feel

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. Paul Auster

World, Chance, Control, Feel, Want, Own

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. - Jules Verne

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. Jules Verne

Sea, Wonderful, Only, Supernatural

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus

Freedom, World, Free, Rebellion, Way

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. Robert Peel

Time, Community, Police, Attention, Give

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. - Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. Isaac Newton

God, Alone, Me, Absence, Thumb, Proof

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy

Power, Man, Diversity, Poetry, Arrogance

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden

Nature, Stars, Man, Soul, Clouds

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. Pam Brown

Dreams, Beautiful, Giving, Strong, Horse

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Education, Harmony, Information

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life, Wisdom, Struggle, Philosophy

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence. Sebastian Lelio

Society, Lights, Reality, Shadows, Human

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. James Buchan

Today, Water, Oil, Human, Obscure, Just

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Swami Vivekananda

Fear, Moment, Help, You, Never, No Fear

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. Deepak Chopra

World, Perception, Reality, Brainy, Just

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating. David Shields

Best, Honesty, Candid, Way, Honesty Is

May my soul bloom in love for all existence. - Rudolf Steiner

May my soul bloom in love for all existence. Rudolf Steiner

Love, Soul, My Soul, Bloom, May

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin

Time, Job, Fire, People, Enough, You

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Rollo May

World, Way, Patterns, Myths, Give, Sense

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause. Toussaint Louverture

Work, Fight, Equality, Want, Vengeance

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. F. Sionil Jose

Strength, Power, Man, Men, Royalty, Same

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand

Freedom, Man, Progress, Men, Society

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung

Light, Darkness, Purpose, Human, Being

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