Existence Quotes · Page 98

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

— Theodor Adorno

The way of life difficult are like mountaineering,, you can wipe the astonishing only a mistake .

— Mak_786

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

— Viktor E. Frankl

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is…

— Thomas Wolfe

I feel fortunate to live in a time when a formerly unimaginable possibility of predictably programming the atoms comprising our existence is…

— Bryan Johnson

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is…

— Frederick Lenz

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence…

— Aberjhani

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and…

— Christopher Hitchens

For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six…

— Alexandra Cousteau

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we…

— Rachel Carson

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a…

— Michael Dirda

Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a…

— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted…

— Anonymous

“Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more…

— Ernst Haas

You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently…

— Richard Dawkins

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic…

— Scott Weiland

Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced -…

— Ralph Cudworth

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that…

— Thomas Paine

Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.…

— Richard Dawkins

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.…

— John Baillie

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people…

— Quentin Crisp

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

— Werner Erhard

The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the…

— Wolfgang Pauli

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

— Norman Mailer

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

— Adolf Hitler

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

— Tony Kushner

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

— Gary L. Francione

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

— Walter Kirn

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not…

— William Hazlitt

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age…

— Hal Boyle

“Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.”

— Adolph Saphir

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

— Alexander Herzen

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our God spoke the universe into existence; he can fix any broken relationship or broken heart.”

— Irene Garcia

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

— William Hurt