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Existence Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The center of every man's existence is a dream.
- At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to…
- Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by…
- We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by…
- The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
- We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of…
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