What Is Existence Quotes

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

My whole existence is spent just trying to not shove bad food in my fat face. It's like a constant struggle. I'll do really good for a while, and then I do bad, then I do really good.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.