Absence

Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright

Absence

"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."

Hero Absence Meaning Of Life

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Absence

"One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness."

Absence Mental Illness Shamanism

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author

Absence

"A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life."

Jesus Might Absence

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Absence

"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."

Virtue Opponents Absence

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker

Absence

"The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing."

Mean Pain Absence

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author

Absence

"I believe absence is a great element of charm."

Believe Elements Absence

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist

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"The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature."

Groups Absence Links

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Absence

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

Opportunity Wells Absence

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

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"Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum."

Noses Absence Boots

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"I dote on his very absence."

Love Love You Absence

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."

Power Violence Absence

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Thomas Leonard Mathematician

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"All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation."

Problem Conversation Absence

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Ovid Poet

Absence

"A short absence is the safest."

Safety Absence

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Absence

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

People Absence Absent

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist

Absence

"In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices."

Loss Natural Absence

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader

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"Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account."

Violence Absence Inner Peace

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Elliott Smith Musician

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"It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation."

Easier Chaos Absence

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Chapman Cohen Philosopher

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"Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history."

Atheism Belief Absence

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

Absence

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

Literature Absence

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Aristotle Philosopher

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"Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole."

Differences Essentials Absence

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