Existence Quotes

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

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

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Working by heart means using your feelings and emotions to lead you to your spiritual sense of existence.

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

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

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.