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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

Life Values Awareness Depends Survival Ultimate Philosophical Mere Contemplation Spiritual Awareness Value Of Life Conscious Awareness

Author:Aristotle

“The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.”

Thinking Life Feels Science Existence Design Mere Suspects Great Design

Author:Kedar Joshi

“What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.”

Life Process Existence Materials Mere Philosopher Productions Substance Spheres Consumption Autonomy

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.”

Life Art Reality Fiction Mere Supreme Treated

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.”

Knows Life Mind Earth Consciousness Mere Surface

Book:The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]

Source: The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]

“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”

Way Life Littles Moments Memories Our Lives Terrible Mere Terror Screens Nostalgia Suspense Continuity Melodrama

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

Ifs Life Made Action Life Is Religion Growth Deals Teaching Development Ought Worship Mere Instinct Linked Gratification Credo

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.”

People Life Humans Plant Mere Seeds Novelists Harvest Planting Seeds

Book:Infants of the spring: a novel

Source: Infants of the spring: a novel