Existence Quotes

4253 quotes by 2188 authors

Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it:… — Dan Barker
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny
From wonder into wonder existence opens. — Laozi
Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth… — Oprah Winfrey
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'. — Eckhart Tolle
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil,… — Lord Byron
You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence. — Zig Ziglar
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. — Madame de Stael
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if… — Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness. — Jean Klein
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. — Euripides
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may… — Alexander Shulgin
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers… — Martin Rees
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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