What Is Existence Quotes

The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.

An individual human existence should be like a river

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

You exist without the feeling of existence.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

I truly believe in the law of attraction and that we live in a multi-dimensional existence beyond the confines of ego-based thinking.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Existence is an imperfection.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.