"The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety."
Source quotes
Source
480 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Source
Browse quotes that often appear alongside source — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Source quotes (page 2 of 24)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."
"The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises"
"When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated."
"Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal."
"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
"To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering."
"You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?"
"The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."
"The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently."
"Great floods have flown From simple sources."
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another."
"Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing."
"When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science."
"Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith."
"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."
"Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles."
"I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material."