Existence Quotes

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.

The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?