What Is Existence Quotes
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.
When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.
Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.
Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence
A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.
This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.
Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.