English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thomas Merton Quotes

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

Thomas Merton

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table. Stendhal
Ritchie Blackmore quote: "When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised."
When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. Ritchie Blackmore
Ivan Turgenev quote: "I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in..."
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place. Ivan Turgenev
There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime. Christopher Hitchens
My name used to be in the papers daily. As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor. To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden! Edgar Lee Masters
Desiderius Erasmus quote: "Your library is your paradise."
Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. Alan Brien
Emma Goldman quote: "What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking..."
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine! Emma Goldman
David Hasselhoff quote: "Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way."
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. David Hasselhoff
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride. William James
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! M. F. K. Fisher
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. Mitch Daniels
I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists. Snoop Dogg
George Eliot quote: "We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and..."
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. George Eliot
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. Carl Orff