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Existence Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded…
- There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself……
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire