Traditional science assumes for the most part that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe stars galaxies sun moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect for humiliating them.
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face some side of God.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.
Moreover behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
I want to say a simple thing that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes packaged cake mixes frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.