Existence Quotes

• The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Want
  • Existence
  • Proved

• You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Wounded
  • Prospect

• So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

  

  Sean Michael Daley Atmosphere
  • Moments
  • Existence
  • Emotion

• It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

  

  Galen Strawson
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Atheist

• One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Lose
  • Dangerous Line

• When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Long
  • Stuff
  • Guitar

• It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

  

  Stephen Hopkins
  • World
  • Surprise
  • Curious

• The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Existence
  • Humor
  • Sensibility

• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Lies
  • Life is

• I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Time
  • May
  • Design

• The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • May
  • Order
  • Affirmation

• Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Problem

• I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Space
  • States
  • Conditions

• For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Argument
  • Immortal

• Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Believe
  • Valuable
  • Rewards

• On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

  

  David Benatar
  • Benefits
  • Worth
  • Costs

• We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Amazing

• ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Child
  • Existence
  • Moral Crime

• His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Stars
  • Letters
  • Languages

• And now in one hour's time I'll be out there again. I'll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.

  

  Colin Welland
  • Eyes
  • Justify
  • There

• Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Birth
  • Builder

• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Intellectual
  • Powers
  • Abilities

• Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Drama

1

...

8

9

10

11

12

...

37

previous

next