100+ Existence Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE FORSAKEN INN (Gothic Mystery Classic): Historical Thriller: Intriguing Novel Featuring Dark Events Surrounding a Mysterious Murder”, p.47, e-artnow

topic: Suffering, Apathy, Existence, Monotony

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Art, Existence, Works Of Art

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

source: Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Existence, Existence Of God

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

source: Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

topic: Insanity, Existence, Blindness, Familiarity Breeds Contempt

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

topic: Should, Existence, If Then

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Life, Accepting, Existence

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Hallmark, Existence, Restlessness

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

- Ashthon Jones

topic: Bigs, Existence, Firm

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

topic: Mindfulness, Existence

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Luxury, Existence, Poetry Is

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

- August Macke

topic: Light, Important, Existence

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

topic: Three, Figures, Existence

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

- Avicenna

topic: Essence, Existence

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Existence, Objectivism, Sensations

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Mind, Should, Existence, Castes, Cultivation

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Mind, Proof, Existence

You exist without the feeling of existence.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Feelings, Existence

Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Real, Real Friends, Existence

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

- Barry Long

topic: Purpose, Existence, Needed

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

- Bede Griffiths

topic: Made, Existence

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

topic: Saws, Made, Existence, Seeking God

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

source: Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

topic: Atheism, Proof, Existence

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Positive, Stakes, Existence, Finitude, Your Purpose In Life

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

- Bernadette Roberts

source: Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.47, SUNY Press

topic: Communication, Silence, Existence, Single Word, Communication With God

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

- Bernd Heinrich

topic: Spring, Essentials, Existence

It's coexistence or no existence.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Diversity, Existence, Coexistence

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Matter, Merit, Existence

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

topic: Careers, People, Existence

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

- Billy Corgan

topic: Escaping, Accepted, Existence, Being Accepted

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God through the use of your cleavage?

- Brandon Sanderson

topic: Trying, Use, Existence, Cleavage

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

- Carolyn Mackler

topic: Soul, Existence

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

topic: Atheism, World, Existence

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

- Charles A. Reich

source: charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

topic: Evil, Misuse, Existence

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Life, Moral, Existence

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

- Charles Dickens

topic: Jewels, Cash, Existence

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

- Charles Fort

topic: Appetite, Existence, Higher

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

- Charles Ives

source: Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

topic: Fabric, Existence

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Civilization, Survival, Existence, American Leadership

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

topic: Atheism, Scientist, Existence

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

- Christian Wiman

topic: Alive, Existence, Feels

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Inspiring, Friends, Existence

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

- Clarice Lispector

source: Clarice Lispector (1989). “Soulstorm: Stories”, p.162, New Directions Publishing

topic: Sea, Existence, Humans

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

- Colleen McCullough

topic: Belief, Proof, Existence

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

topic: Knuckles, Cases, Existence, Only Time

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Men, Existence

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

- Cornelius Van Til

topic: Proof, Existence, Prove, Existence Of God

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

- David C.H. Austin

topic: Evolution, Existence, Prove, Trousers

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

- David Duchovny

topic: Believe, Conspiracy, Existence, Extraterrestrial Life

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

topic: Spheres, Social, Existence, Social Relations

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

source: David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

topic: Fundamentals, Mood, Existence, Perplexity, Inconsequential

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

- David McCallum

topic: Family, Wife, Existence

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

- David Shields

source: David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage

topic: Book, Should, Existence

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

topic: Shadow, Far Away, Existence

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Mystery, Existence

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

- Dejan Stojanovic

topic: Law, Possibility, Existence, Sheer

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

- Denis de Rougemont

source: Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

topic: Love Is, Romance, Existence

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

topic: Men, Existence, Labour

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Forgiveness, Existence, Humans

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

source: "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

topic: Path, Blame, Existence, Promenade, Blame Me

All human existence is a trick of light.

- Don DeLillo

topic: Light, Tricks, Existence, Human Existence

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

- Donald Barthelme

topic: Food, Golden, Existence

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

- Donald Knuth

topic: Challenges, Proof, Existence

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

topic: Existence, Witness, Humans, Ragtime

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

- Edward Thorndike

topic: Existence

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

topic: Voice, Forever, Existence

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Home, Existence, Exile

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

source: Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

topic: Should, Existence, Notion

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

- Emmanuel Levinas

topic: Believe, Rewards, Existence, Existence Of God, Non Existence

Is perception equivalent to existence?

- Erica Jong

topic: Perception, Existence

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

topic: Purpose, Existence, Humans, Human Knowledge

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

topic: Baseball, Opportunity, Existence

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

- Ernst Gombrich

source: Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”

topic: Genius, Existence, Enjoy

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

- Errol Morris

topic: Lonely, Existence

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

- Erwin McManus

source: Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Boundaries, Accepting, Existence

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

- Ewan McGregor

source: "Return of the Jedi: Ewan McGregor" by Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. January 3, 2012.

topic: Ideas, Existence, Solitary, Me Alone

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

- Fanny Kemble

source: Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”

topic: Marriage, Existence

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Life Is, Miserable, Existence, Miserable Life

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

- Ferdinand Mount

source: Ferdinand Mount (2010). “Subversive Family”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

topic: Way, Existence, Relation

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

- Fidel Castro

topic: Holocaust, Compare, Existence

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Art, Firsts, Existence

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

- Gabriel Faure

topic: Art, Everyday, Existence

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

- Galway Kinnell

source: "When the Towers Fell" by Galway Kinnell, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2002.

topic: Existence, Over It, Get Over

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

- Garth Stein

topic: Existence

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Animal, Institutions, Existence

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

- Gary Shteyngart

topic: Reading, Messages, Existence

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

- Gene Cernan

topic: Essence, Curiosity, Existence, Human Existence, Around The Corner

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

- Georg Simmel

source: Georg Simmel (2015). “The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms”, p.204, University of Chicago Press

topic: Empty, Given, Existence, Empty Places, Reserved

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

- George Berkeley

topic: Doubt, Existence

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

- George Berkeley

topic: Existence, Inconsistent

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

- George Berkeley

topic: Real, Mind, Existence

There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.

- George Santayana

topic: Impossible, Existence

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

- George Santayana

topic: Miracle, Moments, Existence, Free Gifts

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

- Georgia Harkness

topic: Life Is, Eternity, Existence, Present Life

Family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering this thing are remembering that family living living can go on existing. Very many are quite certain that family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering that they are quite certain that family living can go on existing.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Remember, Existence

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

- Giordano Bruno

topic: Together, Delight, Existence

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

- Giuseppe Mazzini

topic: Law, Divine, Existence, Divine Law

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

- Glen Duncan

source: Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.92, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Coffee, Aroma, Existence

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

- Graham Kendall

topic: Action, Existence, Prove, Existence Of God

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

- Greg Graffin

topic: Existence, Existence Of God

When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

- Greg L. Bahnsen

topic: Independent, Certain, Existence, Argumentation, Credence

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

- Gustav Heinemann

topic: Existence

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Branches, Existence, Behinds

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

- Guy Debord

topic: Focus, Culture, Existence

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

topic: Black, Existence, Black Race

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Agony, Scales, Existence

It is good to be a cynic â€” it is better to be a contented cat â€” and it is best not to exist at all.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Cat, Existence, Cynic

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

- Hamza Yusuf

topic: Needs, Existence, Justify

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

topic: Joy, Ingredients, Existence

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Able, Existence, Wanted

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Ethics, Existence, Solutions

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats

- Hideki Tojo

topic: Order, Prejudice, Existence

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

- Huey Newton

topic: Way, Violent, Existence

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

- Ilchi Lee

source: Ilchi Lee (2002). “Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive”, p.48, Healing Society

topic: Self, Energy, Existence

Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.

- Irenaeus of Lyons

topic: Sarcastic, People, Existence, Perversity

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

- Irving Stone

topic: Evil, Action, Existence

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Robots, Common, Existence

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

- Ivan Klíma

source: Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.110, Grove Press

topic: Fear, Existence

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

- J. B. Priestley

topic: Age, Mystery, Existence

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

- Jack London

topic: Doe, Achieve, Existence

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

- Jack Vance

topic: Loss, Garments, Existence

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

- Jacques Ellul

topic: Mean, Existence, Integrated

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

- Jane Hirshfield

source: "Poet Jane Hirshfield On How To Read Poetry And Restore ‘Amazement’". Interview with Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

topic: Existence, Amazement

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence

- Janice Raymond

source: "Dispelling Fictions and Disrupting Hashtags". Interview with Julian Vigo, www.counterpunch.org. August 25, 2014.

topic: Problem, Existence, Transsexuals

Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.

- Je Tsongkhapa

topic: Determination, Existence, Craving

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

- Jean Klein

topic: Consciousness, Awareness, Existence

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

- Jean Toomer

topic: Philosophical, Existence, Humans

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Democracy, Existence, Term, True Democracy

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Existentialism, Existence

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

- Jeff Rich

topic: Proof, Existence, Interest, Compound Interest, Proof Of God

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

source: "What you see and what you get". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

topic: Way, Existence

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Today, Wealth, Existence, Autonomous, Rite

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

- Johann Gottfried Herder

topic: Individual, Mark, Existence

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Goal, Existence, Distracted

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist,

- John Barth

topic: Existence

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

- John Boehner

topic: Israel, Stakes, Existence

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

- John Lennox

source: John C. Lennox (2009). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.210, Lion Books

topic: Results, Buried, Existence

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

- John Macmurray

topic: Existence, Significance

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

- John Searle

source: "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

topic: Existence, Axioms

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

- John Stuart Blackie

topic: Order, Law, Existence

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

- John Szarkowski

topic: Photography, Sometimes, Existence

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

- John Wyndham

source: John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett

topic: Treasure, Existence, Precarious

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

topic: Life, Unemployed, Existence, Negation

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

- Jose Saramago

topic: Needs, Bread, Existence

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Life, Lying, Existence, Train Of Thought

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

- Judith McNaught

topic: Existence

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

- Julian Clary

topic: World, Existence, Not Sure

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Love You, Lasts, Existence

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

- Karl Liebknecht

topic: People, States, Existence, Enslavement

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

- Karl Marx

topic: Slavery, States, Existence

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Men, World, Existence

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: God, Philosophical, Existence, Philosophical Questions

The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Thinking, Design, Existence, Great Design

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

- Killer Mike

topic: Minorities, Worn, Existence

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system

- Killer Mike

topic: Law, Enforcement, Existence

Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?

- Kim Harrison

topic: Existence

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

- Konrad Lorenz

topic: Existence, Species

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Proof, Existence, Music Is

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

- Leon Kass

topic: Choices, Parent, Existence

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

topic: Regret, Links, Existence

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

- Lev S. Vygotsky

topic: Existence

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

- Lin Yutang

source: Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

topic: This Life, Existence, Admire, Happy And Content

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

- Lincoln Steffens

source: Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”

topic: Sense Of Humor, Existence

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

- Lionel Shriver

topic: People, Awkward, Existence

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

- Lisa Delpit

source: Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.37, The New Press

topic: Ignorance, Power, Existence

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

- Louis Agassiz

topic: Running, Possibility, Existence

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

- Louis Althusser

topic: Men, Demand, Existence

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

- Louis Althusser

source: Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books

topic: Real, Individual, Existence

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

- Louis Kahn

topic: Influence, Existence, Circumstances

All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

- Lucy Stone

source: Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.

topic: Taken, Political, Existence

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Existence, Property, Private Property

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

- Marcel Duchamp

topic: Art, Existence, Veracity

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

- Marcel Leroux

source: Marcel Leroux (2006). “Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology”, p.4, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Long, Global Warming, Existence, Non Believer, Scenarios

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Past, Existence, Carried Away

Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

- Marcus Thomas

topic: Dream, Speak, Existence

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Use, Virtue, Existence

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Trying, Existence

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

topic: Eternity, Existence

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