Existence Quotes
Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.
I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.
Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.
Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
