Books Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“All phenomena—causes and effects, agents and actions, good and bad—merely exist conventionally; they are dependent-arisings. Because phenomena depend upon other factors for their existence,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Emptiness does not imply non-existence; emptiness implies the emptiness of intrinsic existence, which necessarily implies dependent origination. Dependence and interdependence is the nature of…

— Thupten Jinpa

“Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.”

— Gabriel Brunsdon

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

It's coexistence or no existence.

— Bertrand Russell

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man…

— Milan Kundera

“Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.”

— Paul Scott

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of…

— Lee Smolin

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Nothing exists in isolation. In fact, all beings and phenomena exist only because of their relationship with other beings or phenomena.”

— Jeff Ourvan

The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

There's no such thing as non-existence.

— Nikhil Saluja