Existence Quotes · Page 112

I've structured my entire life around sleep. There's nothing I do in my life that influences my conscious existence more than my…

— Bryan Johnson

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest…

— Joë Bousquet

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

— William McDonough

“We only see a tiny fraction of that creature’s existence. There is a huge amount of its life that we have no…

— Gareth Huw Davies

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant…

— Anton Chekhov

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

— Ernst Haeckel

To apologize for the Balfour Declaration would be to apologize for the existence of Israel and to question its right to exist.…

— Sajid Javid

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The…

— Dalai Lama

There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the…

— Gary Zukav

It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to…

— David Benatar

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record…

— Stanislaw Lem

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of…

— Paul Davies

A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like…

— Grace Potter

“There are only two things: Circumstances and the Soul. If you become ‘one’ with the circumstances, the worldly life will come into…

— Dada Bhagwan

Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does…

— Margery Allingham

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect.…

— Patricia Highsmith

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do…

— Louis Pasteur

You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we…

— Deepak Chopra

Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to…

— Paul F. M. Zahl

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark…

— Barbara G. Walker

I have no friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be…

— Megan Fox

It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can…

— David Hume

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

— D. H. Lawrence

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

— Albert Camus

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely…

— Frederick Lenz

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific…

— John Clayton

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for…

— Paul Copan

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

— Anaximander

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

— Rumi

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a…

— Charles Templeton

“Was this what life was? Long periods of invisibility followed by short bursts of existence?”

— Augustus Rose

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

— Jules Verne

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in…

— John Harvey Kellogg

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

— Jean Piaget

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of…

— Douglas Coupland

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

— Oswald Chambers