For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“That you cannot prove God’s non-existence is accepted and trivial, if only in the sense that we can never absolutely prove the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image