Existence Quotes

• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Universe

• Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Lying
  • Individual

• Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.

  

  George Holyoake
  • Reason
  • Existence
  • Atheism

• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Reason
  • Submit

• The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Childhood
  • Familiar
  • Adult

• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Universe
  • Stars
  • Atom

• Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophy
  • Existence
  • Happy Moment

• Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Fuel

• We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Existence
  • Tolerate

• We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures … If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

  

  John O'Keefe
  • Universe
  • Existence
  • Circumstances

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