What Is Existence Quotes

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have Friends. 'Tis a second 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.

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.

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.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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?

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

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.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

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.

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.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

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.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.