Existence Quotes
4253 quotes by 2257 authors
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are…
— Franz Boas
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Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate.…
— Frantz Fanon
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand…
— Bertrand Russell
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Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a…
— Sarah Schulman
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame de Stael
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
— Arthur Koestler
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful…
— Tom Platz
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment…
— Emile Durkheim
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize…
— Rajneesh
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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