What Is Existence Quotes

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Man's existence precedes his essence

Existence is prior to essence.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

You ought not be afraid of nuclear, but respectful of it. Yes, it has dangers, but it also has benefits. If not for nuclear, much of the medicine that's saving lives today would not be in existence.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.