Existed Quotes

• How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wise
  • Island
  • Good Will

• Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Behind
  • Tragic

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Fortunate
  • Creature
  • Existed

• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Life
  • Wind
  • Spoken

• I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Existed
  • Stood
  • Rememeber

• If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Absolutely
  • Existed

• The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Notion
  • Doubted
  • Middle Ages

• The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

  

  John Curtin
  • Exist
  • Finding
  • Consistency

• Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

  

  Eric Holder
  • America
  • Existed
  • Differ

• The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Prisoner
  • Find Out

• America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Morning
  • Singing

• Geometry existed before creation.

  

  Plato
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Labor
  • Deserves
  • Existed

• Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Education
  • Failure
  • Produce

• It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Remember
  • Body
  • Existed

• I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Existed
  • Cage
  • Eva

• Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Israel

• Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Create
  • Existed

• It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

  

  George A Tice
  • Better
  • Records
  • Photograph

• The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • History
  • Conflict
  • Islam

• If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Written
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Hemingway

• ... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Learned
  • Conscious
  • University

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