Exist Quotes

4294 quotes by 2666 authors

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist… — Laozi
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. — W. Somerset Maugham
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the… — Emile M. Cioran
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. — Emile M. Cioran
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:… — Albert Einstein
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks… — Stephen Jay Gould
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task… — Karl Marx
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. — Susan B. Anthony
Better not to exist than live basely. — Sophocles
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally… — Walt Whitman
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. — Albert Camus
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus
Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on… — Simone de Beauvoir
Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist. — Blaise Pascal
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did… — Jacques Barzun
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado

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