Existence Quotes

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A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just… — Rajneesh
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises — Ramana Maharshi
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved.… — Bernard Lewis
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Happiness is the object and design of our existence. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about… — Antonya Nelson
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a… — Kyle Smith
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there… — H. P. Blavatsky
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but… — Thomas Ernest Hulme
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in… — Silver RavenWolf
Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts,… — Nicolas Steno
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in… — Hugo Black

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