Existence Quotes
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.