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Existence Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
- A distracted existence leads us to no goal
- Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
- If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
- Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
- Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he…
- When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
- And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me…
- The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to…
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- 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
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- 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