Existence Quotes

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

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

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.

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.

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.

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

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Existence begins in every instant.