Existence Quotes

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

Merely to exist is not enough.

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

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

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

APPRECIATION IN ANY FORM AT ANY TIME BRIGHTENS ANYONE'S EXISTENCE.

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

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

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

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

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

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

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.