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Existence Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
- It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves…
- As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival…
- I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the…
- In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward…
- Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at…
- I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of…
- In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
- Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist
- The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect…
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