"Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity" – Will Durant

Life quotes May 27, 2011

“Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity” – Will Durant

"Life is the hardest game you will ever play, After all nobody ever makes it out alive" – Timothy Brooks

“Life is the hardest game you will ever play, After all nobody ever makes it out alive” – …

"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders." – Louis D. Brandeis

“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.” …

"The dynamic of the album and the way it unfolds is infantile, fluffy and warm." – Alejandro Rosso

“The dynamic of the album and the way it unfolds is infantile, fluffy and warm.” – Alejandro Rosso

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."" – Anais Nin

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read …

"If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber." – Albert Einstein

“If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.” – Albert Einstein

"Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat" – Lao Tzu

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat” – Lao Tzu

"I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity." – Brian Eno

“I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and …

"Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a ‘before-life?’ Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great" – Judith Hayes

“Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an …

"So these are the dynamics we’re dealing with." – Bakari Kitwana

“So these are the dynamics we’re dealing with.” – Bakari Kitwana

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap" – Jacques Barzun

“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, …