What Is Existence Quotes

Question boldly even the existence of God.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

You're my existence. I'm yours

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.