Existence Quotes · Page 268

Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge…

— James A. Haught

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she…

— Garth Nix

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

— Daniel Barenboim

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things…

— Thomas Struth

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by…

— Maria Montessori

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people…

— Andrew Wommack

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up…

— Gautama Buddha

I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the…

— Joseph Beuys

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join…

— Ronald Reagan

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and…

— Beverley Nichols

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and…

— Sarada Devi

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When…

— Dylan Moran

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or…

— Neil Peart

I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate…

— Thomas Hodgskin

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

— Louis Dudek

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Albert Camus

The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly…

— Charles Baxter

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did…

— Immanuel Kant

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career,…

— Bill Laswell

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

— Donald Knuth

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political…

— Carl Menger

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and…

— Thomas Jefferson