Existence Quotes

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.

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

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.