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Existence Quotes by David Benatar
- Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed,…
- It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the…
- On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
- Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is…
- It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely…
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