Existence Quotes

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

I believe in the law of attraction...I believe you can speak things into existence. When you know where you're going and you know what you want, the universe has a way of stepping aside for you.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.