Exist Quotes

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A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,… — Hermann Hesse
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never… — Richard Dawkins
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by… — Albert Einstein
I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't… — George Clooney
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel… — Douglas Adams
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite… — Leo Tolstoy
Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers. — Robert Kiyosaki
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. — Sharon Salzberg
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing… — Rajneesh
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One… — Henri Matisse
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive… — Michael Pollan
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also… — Roger Scruton
A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct… — Thomas Jefferson

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