Existence Quotes

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

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.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

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

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

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.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.