Existence Quotes
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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.
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No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.
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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.
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Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.
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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.
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
