Existence Quotes
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
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.
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?
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
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."
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.