Existence Quotes

• What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Existence
  • Laughed
  • Attained

• In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Children
  • Existence
  • Injustice

• With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

  

  Edward J. Fraughton
  • Know
  • Existence
  • Beginnings

• Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Want
  • Persons
  • Existence

• For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Existence

• The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

  

  Armand Salacrou
  • God
  • Existence
  • Presence

• The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • God
  • Together
  • Devil

• The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

  

  Cecil Roth
  • Community
  • Church
  • Journey

• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Ego
  • Realize

• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Gods
  • Seeking
  • Evident

• To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Power
  • Existence
  • Omnipotence

• A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Results
  • Conditions
  • Produce

• Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Evil
  • Suffering
  • Doubt

• Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Life
  • Dealing
  • Seeking

• I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Existence
  • Stick
  • Smells

• Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Philosophy
  • Existence
  • Perception

• The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Person
  • Existence
  • Reflect

• The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

  

  Wilhelm Dilthey
  • World
  • Experience
  • Question

• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Laugh
  • Tea
  • Justification

• Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Passion
  • Band

• Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Growth
  • Existence

• What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Matter
  • Existence
  • Antimatter

• Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • False
  • Motion
  • Paintings

• The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.

  

  David van Dantzig
  • Problem
  • Determination
  • Rational

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