Existence Quotes
4253 quotes by 2275 authors
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of…
— Carl Sagan
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
— George MacDonald
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is…
— John Baillie
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The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating…
— Armand Salacrou
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of…
— Galen Strawson
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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to…
— Immanuel Kant
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
— Rajneesh
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
— James Madison
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves…
— Doris Grumbach
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth…
— Rudolf Steiner
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
— Aristotle
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
— James A. Baldwin
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