Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2666 authors
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I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is…
— Rupert Friend
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An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in…
— Richard Mabey
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It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
— Francis Bacon
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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
— Aristotle
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The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
— George Will
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Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and…
— Max Born
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Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
— Sam Ervin
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I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require…
— Rene Descartes
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I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
— Cees Nooteboom
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
— Roland Barthes
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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall…
— Richard Dooling
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I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I…
— Robert Delaunay
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The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm…
— Colin Firth
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There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced…
— Jonah Goldberg
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
— Claudio Hummes
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Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation…
— John Hartford
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