Existence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
-- Adyashanti -
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
-- African Spir -
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
-- Alan Alda -
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
-- Alan Watts -
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
-- Albert Camus -
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
-- Albert Einstein -
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
-- Amit Goswami -
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
-- Andre Breton -
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
-- Andre Weil -
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
-- Angela Davis -
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.
-- Anis Mojgani -
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
-- Anita Borg -
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
-- Anna Katharine Green -
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
-- Antonin Artaud -
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
-- Antony Flew -
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
-- Apuleius -
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
-- Aristotle -
We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.
-- Ashthon Jones -
Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
-- Asvaghosa -
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
-- Audre Lorde -
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
-- August Macke -
The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
-- Avicenna -
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
-- Ayn Rand -
Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.
-- Ayn Rand -
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
You exist without the feeling of existence.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
-- Barry Long -
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
-- Bede Griffiths -
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
-- Bede Griffiths -
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
-- Ben Hecht -
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
-- Bernadette Roberts -
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
-- Bertrand Russell -
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
-- Bill Laswell -
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
-- Billy Corgan -
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage?
-- Brandon Sanderson -
I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
-- Chapman Cohen -
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
-- Charles Dickens -
And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?
-- Charles Dickens -
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
-- Charles Fort -
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
-- Charles Ives -
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
-- Charles Lindbergh -
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?
-- Christian B. Anfinsen -
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.
-- Christian Wiman -
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
-- Clarice Lispector -
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
-- Colleen McCullough -
The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.
-- Colson Whitehead -
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.
-- David C.H. Austin -
I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
-- David Duchovny -
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
-- David Harvey -
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
-- David Markson -
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
-- David McCallum -
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
-- David Shields -
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.
-- Dean Potter -
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
-- Denis de Rougemont -
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
-- Diogenes -
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
-- Donald Barthelme -
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
-- Donald Knuth -
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
-- Edward Thorndike -
He had told her he would love her forever, but he could not stay with her. From that time on, she couldn't see his glow or hear his voice in her head. Could he still hear her? Was he even aware of her existence?
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
-- Emily Bronte -
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
-- Emmanuel Levinas -
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.
-- Erik Naggum -
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
-- Ernie Harwell -
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
-- Ernst Gombrich -
Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.
-- Errol Morris -
The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
-- Erwin McManus -
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
-- Ewan McGregor -
When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
-- Fanny Kemble
