What Is Existence Quotes

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

There are some dogs that are gigantic that look like they shouldn't be in existence.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Love is the wine of existence.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.