Existence Quotes

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.