Existence Quotes

4253 quotes by 2275 authors

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very… — Hannah Arendt
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural… — David Attenborough
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. — Henry Adams
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of… — Charles Baudelaire
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the… — John Berger
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical… — Annie Besant
Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its… — Annie Besant
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence… — Ambrose Bierce
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno

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