Existence Quotes
4253 quotes by 2188 authors
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept…
— Christian B. Anfinsen
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Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the…
— Edward Robert Harrison
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I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
— Charles Hard Townes
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I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery…
— Allan Sandage
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God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang…
— Henry Margenau
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Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
— Jean Toomer
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The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation…
— R C Sproul
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I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
— Ravi Zacharias
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a…
— Alister E. McGrath
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By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that…
— Zhuangzi
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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human…
— Meher Baba
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Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its…
— Mooji
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This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the…
— Thomas Merton
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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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