Existence Quotes
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
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Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.
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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.
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I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
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A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
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Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
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Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.
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I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.
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The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.
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Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.
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Every organization was built for a purpose. We haven’t built any organization just for the sake of its mere existence.
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.
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Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
